From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-03-02T23:36:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Rub 1.9: "inline rescue" doesn't work?

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
> 2009/3/2 Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com>:

>> But please, don't use this technique.  It creates huge debugging nightmares.
>>
>> Instead, just do:
>>
>> aaa = obj.respond_to?(:capitalize) ? obj.capitalize : 444
>>
>>
> I'd see it as a Ruby's failure that the proper check is against DRY.

Agreed, but the costs of the elegance of using rescue as a conditional
modifier stack up fast in any moderately complex system.

-greg

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