> * The biggest thing I miss is that every block was inherently a try-block. Just put your exception handlers at the bottom of the block. This provided a nice s

> * The biggest thing I miss is that every block was inherently a try-block. Just put your exception handlers at the bottom of the block. This provided a nice separation of "normal flow-control" and "exceptional flow-control". Why have try-catch anyway -- I never got used to that later in life. That's still the case in Ruby, you can put a rescue at the end of the block.