From: Ted <ted@...>
Date: 2003-01-03T00:43:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Are we even getting close?

Now we're getting somewhere!
I was thinking that I'd need one for each condition, and that one rescue for the three conditions is the result of misched-up thinking.  I've seen too many sloppy programs that did this sort of thing.  But Ruby is different?
Enquiring minds need to know...

>  Why do you need 3 blocks 'begin ... rescue' ? One is suffisant : the error
>  message will give you the reason of the failure
> 
>  This is not the same with php
> 
> T>       3 $conn = mysql_connect('localhost','xxxxx','xxxxxxx');
> T>       4 if ($conn == FALSE) {
> 
>  here you must test the result of mysql_connect
> 
> T>       5     echo 'Connection failed: '.mysql_error($conn);
> T>       6 } else {
> T>       7     mysql_select_db('mysql', $conn);
> T>       8     $query = "select host, user, password from user";
> T>       9     $res = mysql_query($query, $conn);
> T>      10     if ($res == NULL) {
> 
>  here you must test the result of mysql_query
> 
> 
> 
> Guy Decoux
>