To be honest, while the only obvious benefit is shorting down the number of braces slightly, the real benefit I experienced from practicing it in Ruby were a slight change in how I actually think about exception handling.
It's very hard to quantify how much benefit it really is, but I agree on that it will make the parsing a bit backwards. If it's a big hassle I don't think it's worth it, but if it can be added easily in some already-existing phase, I think it should be seriously considered. Daniel Keep Wrote: > I like the idea from a DRY perspective. That said, it's a bit > problematic in that you can't tell if any given block has an exception > handler until you find the end of it and check. > > As much as it looks like a nice simplification, I'm not sure this has > enough benefit to be worth it.
