From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2006-09-25T02:33:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Riddle me this (a question about expressions)

Robert Klemme schrieb:
> Interestingly enough "raise" does not provoke such a compile error 
> although I cannot see how it would ever return control flow locally:

   def raise *args
     "my raise"
   end

   x = raise NameError
   p x  # => "my raise"

Don't ask me why it is implemented like this, though.

Regards,
Pit