From: Belorion <belorion@...>
Date: 2007-11-04T04:11:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamic requires

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I did not know that! (obviously).

Much appreciated.

Matt

On 11/3/07, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
>
> 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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