From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-07T17:19:26+09:00
Subject: Re: trapping compile time errors

On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:15:45PM +0900, Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk wrote:
> I want to catch compile time errors with my own method.
...
> Eventually,
> I came up with the following, which is not as I imagined.  It's ugly.

It's correct though - need an 'eval' because you must have a working
(syntactically-valid) program A to report the error, before attempting to
compile invalid program B.

The other way is with require or load:

begin
  require 'somefile.rb'
rescue Exception => e
  puts "Error here (#{e}).  May be any error, including SyntaxError"
end

Regards,

Brian.