From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2010-01-14T00:29:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Is 'rescue' expensive ?

One of the things that seems to be mostly missing from this discussion
(which after all started out with dealing with a difference between
Ruby 1.8 and 1.9, is that since Ruby class definitions are executable,
you can move the overhead to class definition time with code like

class Foo
   def some_version_independent method
     #...
   end
    if RUBY_VERSION =~ /^1\.9/
        def some_version_dependent_method
           #implementation which works in 1.9
        end
    else
        def some_version_dependent_method
           #implementation which works in 1.8
        end
    end
end



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