From: Bob X <bobx@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T09:35:26+09:00
Subject: Re: functional Ruby equiv to this perl snippet

<dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0210211942110.25814-100000@candle.superlink.net...
<snip> "or fail" won't work the way "or die" does in Perl; you need to
> rescue, because you're catching an exception (not just branching on a
> false return value).  Something like:
>
>   f = File.open("blah") rescue fail "That did not work"
>
Will that actually work? All the docs (pickaxe, nutshell) I have read all
show it in a begin/end statment. Is there another tome I am needing?

Bob