From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-10-01T23:05:19+09:00
Subject: Re: "ensure" hiding actual error

2008/10/1 Thomas B. <tpreal@gmail.com>:
> Nit Khair wrote:
>> Now in real life, "@test = " calls a method elsewhere which may call
>> other methods. So i am clueless as to where the error actually is.
>
> You caused another exception inside your ensure clause, so the previous
> one got lost, so that's your mistake. If you want the original exception
> to live to tell the tale, you cannot raise another in your ensure
> clause. But if your ensure clause was correct, there wouldn't be any
> problems with handling correctly the original exception.

Adding to that: an uninitialized variable does not cause a syntax
error.  IIRC initially this was about a syntax error.

Cheers

robert


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