From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-02-12T04:11:42+09:00
Subject: Re: rescue syntax

Alan Chen <alan@digikata.com> writes:

> For methods, I'd imagine something like the following
> 
> def method
>  # method logic
> rescue
>  # oops, bad logic
> end

Shazzaam! And so it shall be.  :)

Ruby supports this articular syntax already.

It also has a per-statement rescue:

  # convert str to an integer if possible, otherwise set
  # it to -1
  a = (Integer(str) rescue -1)


(the parentheses are needed here)


Cheers

Dave