From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-11-18T00:53:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25712] Re: Strange behaviour of "rescue"

chad fowler wrote:
> 
> --- Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de> wrote:
> > 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

Thanks, that's it.

Regards,

  Michael

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