From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2006-12-12T08:15:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in Ruby or Pickaxe? (was: Re: else inside rescue  is useless?)


On Dec 11, 2006, at 7:55 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:

> What bugs me is that the "else" clause is not executed if it is  
> left via a "return".  Taking the Pickaxe 2nd edition pg. 362  
> literally ("If an else clause is present, its body is executed if  
> no exceptions were raised in code.") it would have to be executed  
> in that case, too.  So, if the interpreter would behave as stated  
> in the book, there was actually a difference between the code at  
> the end of the block and the code inside the else clause.

Why would you expect the else clause to be executed if a return is  
executed? That seems counter-intuitive to me.


Cheers


Dave