At Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:02:41 +0900, MikkelFJ wrote: > > Therefore, the file is closed immediately after the block completes. > But I'm not sure what happens in case of an exception from inside the block. See Init_IO(), rb_f_open() and rb_file_s_open() in io.c -- OZAWA -Crouton- Sakuro E-Mail: mailto:crouton / weatherlight.org Web: http://www.weatherlight.org/~crouton/ PGP: C98F 74E0 AEEB 4578 1DFC F650 3BE0 9627 11FC C9F5 VERBA VOLANT, SCRIPTA MANENT