From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-11-15T06:53:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6371] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6368] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior"
    on 00/11/15, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|> differently because it has one or more rescue clauses.  In discussing while/until
|> modifiers, it says:
|> 
|>   [given this: expression until boolean-expression]
|>   If expression is a begin/end block, the block will always be executed at least one time
|> 
|> and elsewhere: "Exceptions may be handled within the scope of a begin/end block."
|> There's no indication that putting a rescue clause in, or taking one out, will affect
|> the basic behavior of blocks (including begin...end until boolean).
|> 
|> I sort of hope it turns out to be a (fixable) problem in Ruby, rather than a
|> problem in the docs :-)  
|
|So do I ;-)
|
|To be honest, I hadn't come across this behavior in the past.

Aaaagh.

That's my mistake not to mention this FEATURE in the reference
manual.  3 Japanese books (yes, we have 4 books for Ruby) mentions
this.

							matz.