From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-11-04T03:49:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamic requires

Hi --

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Belorion wrote:

> I don't want to go into to much boring detail as to why I am trying to do
> this... but why doesn't this work?
>
> begin
>  require 'foo'
> rescue
>  class Foo
>  end
> end
>
> Instead of rescuing the error  (when 'foo' is not found), it still gets
> thrown.

It's because the bare "rescue" only rescues errors that are
descendants of StandardError. Otherwise you have to specify the ones
you want:

   rescue LoadError


David

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