From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-06-04T13:51:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Should the rescue modifier take a block?

Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> Would something like this make sense?
> 
>   mymeth(myargs) rescue { puts "mymeth failed"; exit }
> 
> It's not current syntax. I'm asking whether
> it would make sense to add it.

Not really an answer to your question, but there is this:

   def boom
     raise
   end

   boom rescue begin
     puts "boom failed"
     exit
   end

   puts "Darn, it didn't work"

It works, needless to say. Actually I've always been a bit uncomfortable 
with using begin/end for this and for "begin...end while ...". It seems 
like do...end and {...} should be doing that job, and begin...end should 
be just for exceptions. But I don't lose sleep over it.