Issue #21822 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto). Status changed from Open to Rejected Thank you for the feedback. I understand the aesthetic appeal, but "cleaner" is subjective, and the existing pattern is already idiomatic Ruby with no real cognitive overhead. More importantly, "purely additive" does not mean cost-free. Every new syntax must be defined precisely, documented, and handle edge cases correctly. As nobu noted in #3, the semantics when an exception is raised are not obvious, which suggests the concept has rough edges that outweigh the cosmetic benefit. Matz. ---------------------------------------- Feature #21822: Expose Return Value in the ensure Block https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21822#change-116736 * Author: artemb (Artem Borodkin) * Status: Rejected ---------------------------------------- I'd like to propose a simple feature that allows easy access to the return value inside an ensure block. ```ruby begin # ... ensure => ret # ret is nil if an exception is raised LOGGER.debug "return value: #{ret}" end ``` -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/