From: chad fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2001-11-18T00:03:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25708] Re: Strange behaviour of "rescue"


--- Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This works fine:
> 
>   begin
>     exit
>   rescue SystemExit 
>   end
> 
> But this not:
> 
>   begin exit rescue SystemExit end
> 
> I guess the reason for it is that rescue in the
> one-liner form does not 
> take an exception class (it assumes RuntimeError) so
> that the latter 
> example would be equivalent to:
> 
>   begin 
>     exit rescue 
>     SystemExit
>   end
> 
> Is there a short form for the above?


Does the following work as you expect?

begin exit; rescue SystemExit; end

Chad




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