From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-12-05T02:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby idiom equivalent to Perl "$asdf = $ARGV[0] || die 'arg 	required'"?

On Dec 4, 11:30 am, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>
wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2007, at 11:08 AM, MonkeeSage wrote:
>
> > raise/fail don't have perl compatibility...they print nasty stuff
> > about errors and what-not. In perl, "die" just prints a message and
> > dies (how suprising). If you really want something equiv. to the perl,
> > you'll have to write your own #die or do something more extensive.
>
> $ qri Kernel#abort
> ----------------------------------------------------------- Kernel#abort
>       abort
>       Kernel::abort
>       Process::abort
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>       Terminate execution immediately, effectively by calling
>       Kernel.exit(1). If msg is given, it is written to STDERR prior to
>       terminating.
>
> James Edward Gray II

I stand corrected. :)

Regards,
Jordan