From: thefed Date: 2007-11-22T04:47:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Emulating a Groovy feature? On Nov 21, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Robert Klemme wrote: > The value of the expression is replaced by the value of the > expression after the "rescue" in this form. And no, you don't need > a block. The Pickaxe 1st edition does not seem to mention it but > it's definitively a legal Ruby feature. Begin-Rescue-End blocks tend to slow things down significantly - does JUST including rescue also take those penalties to speed? - Ari Brown