Re: ruby syntax

Ruby
1

Hi!
I wanted to write this :

       infile = File.new("foo")
       infile.each do ....

  but typed  in
      infile.read do   ...
             ----
  and it ran with no results  - and no error messages  .  After a

few minutes of puzzlement
I found it. What does ruby do with the block if the method does
not
take one ? . Why doesn’t ruby check this kind of errors ?

nainar

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On Mar 31, 2006, at 2:14 AM, v. nainar wrote:

I found it. What does ruby do with the block if the method does not
take one ? . Why doesn’t ruby check this kind of errors ?

It does nothing with the block. I imagine it doesn’t check if a
method takes a block because you’d have to inspect the source of the
method everytime to check if it took one or not, since methods can
change.