From: Marnen Laibow-Koser <marnen@...>
Date: 2010-01-01T02:25:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Why can't I use "or" here?

Albert Schlef wrote:
> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>> Albert Schlef wrote:
>>> Albert Schlef wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey, I now see that this works:
>>> 
>>>     some_func((ARGV[0] or raise "You must provide an argument"))
>>> 
>>> Great. On the other hand, I won't be able to remember this the next time 
>>> I need it.
>> 
>> Just use Ruby's rescue syntax instead of trying to be clever.
> 
> What do you mean?

begin

rescue

end

Look it up.

Or is that not what you didn't understand?

Best,
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