From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-06-23T00:52:40+09:00
Subject: Re: What do you think of this idiom?

>>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

D>     begin
D>       print prompt
D>       str = gets.chomp
D>       raise error unless yield(str)
D>     rescue => err
D>       puts err
D>       retry
D>     end

 there is a stupid way to write it, without rescue

   begin
      print prompt
      str = gets.chomp
   end until yield(str) or puts error
 

Guy Decoux