From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-07-19T07:22:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: "print usage_msg, exit 1 if error_flag" does not workO

Hi,

At Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:54:55 +0900,
Dave Thomas wrote:
> >   (print error_message; exit 1)  if error_flag
> > 
> 
> 
> Or, if this is something that happens more than once, perhaps express
> the intent:
> 
>   def fatal_error(msg)
>     puts msg
>     exit 1
>   end

abort in 1.7 does it.

$ ruby-1.7 -e 'abort "Hi!"'; echo $?
Hi!
1

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Nobu Nakada