From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-07-28T09:19:11+09:00
Subject: Re: problems with throw/catch (newbie)

Joshua Ballanco wrote:
> First, Ruby blocks don't work like Java iterators. That is, you can't 
> use 'catch' and 'throw' the way that you have. Second, it is good 
> programing practice to reserve 'throw's and 'catch'es for 
> honest-to-goodness errors (this isn't just Ruby specific either).

There's nothing wrong with using catch/throw as a control flow 
construct, if you need it. For example: breaking out of nested loops.

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