From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-10-04T04:51:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Assignment in a Conditional an Idiom?

Robert Dober wrote:
> It seems very bad code to me, what is wrong with the following?
>    @attributes['comments'] = @attributes['comments'].split( " " )
> rescue @attributes['comments']

I think I remember hearing that 'expr rescue val' is not going to rescue 
a NoMethodError in future versions of Ruby.

Having said that, other non-backwards-compatible changes have been 
reverted (like Array#zip)
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