From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2002-12-08T15:41:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruminations...

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 16:31, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> From: "Ted" <ted@datacomm.com>
>
> > I was looking at "Ruby in a Nutshell" on Amazon's site and came across
> > this
>
> in the Introduction on page 3:
> > begin
> >   f = open(path)
> > rescue
> >   puts "#{path} does not exist."
> >   exit 1
> > end

> Correct, it should rescue a specific error, like Errno::ENOENT.

Or at least print the actual exception, which will tell you why the open 
failed.  I'm willing to give Matz a break, though.  I owe him one :-).