From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2006-09-25T11:21:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Riddle me this (a question about expressions)


On Sep 24, 2006, at 4:50 PM, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Hal Fulton wrote:
>
>> I wonder if there is some case where raise would/does return
>> a meaningful value somehow? My gut reaction is 'no'... but
>> this is Ruby...
>
> I am fairly certain that the return value can never be captured.  At
> least I can't figure out how to do it.

Well, since it is a method...

module Kernel
   def raise
      'not what you expected'
   end
end

x = raise
p x

Maybe that is cheating, but as long as raise is a method there is the
possibility that it might return a value.

Gary Wright