From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T09:55:31+09:00
Subject: Re: functional Ruby equiv to this perl snippet

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Bob X wrote:

> <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?

works for me (suprised)

irb(main):010:0> open 'foo123abc', 'r' rescue puts 'wow'
wow
nil

wow.

-a

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