From: mirian@... (Mirian Crzig Lennox)
Date: 2002-10-22T06:18:57+09:00
Subject: Re: functional Ruby equiv to this perl snippet

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 05:54:49 +0900, Bob X <bobx@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
>Cool..but what if serverlist.txt does not exist? The one thing I do like
>about Perl is the "open file or die" test. I believe that I am "stuck" with
>a rescue clause which is sometimes confusing for me (a newbie) to use when
>it is located within a "def".

You can do something very similar in Ruby, using "fail" instead of "die".
For example:

	def open_file name
	  f = File.open(name) or fail "couldn't open #{name}"
	  return f
        end

--Mirian