From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-03-02T11:01:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Rub 1.9: "inline rescue" doesn't work?

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Iņaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
> Hi, is there any explanation for the folowing big difference between the same
> code in 1.8 and 1.9?:
>
>
> 1.8)
>
> aaa = 123.capitalize rescue 444
> => 444
>
>
> 1.9)
>
> aaa = 123.capitalize rescue 444
> NoMethodError: undefined method `capitalize' for 123:Fixnum

>> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.9.1"
>> 123.captialize rescue 444
=> 444

But please, don't use this technique.  It creates huge debugging nightmares.

Instead, just do:

aaa = obj.respond_to?(:capitalize) ? obj.capitalize : 444