From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-02-12T04:21:27+09:00
Subject: Re: rescue syntax

Alan Chen wrote:
...
> Would the option of attaching rescue conditions to arbitrary code blocks be desireable?
> For methods, I'd imagine something like the following
> 
> def method
>  # method logic
> rescue
>  # oops, bad logic
> end

That works already:

irb(main):036:0> def div x
irb(main):037:1>   3/x
irb(main):038:1> rescue Exception
irb(main):039:1>   puts "Argh!"
irb(main):040:1> end
nil
irb(main):041:0> div 0
Argh!
nil
irb(main):043:0> RUBY_VERSION
"1.6.6"

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