It seems like this code in Ruby:

```

begin

  do_something

  handle_error e

  log_something

```

is equivalent to this in JavaScript:

```

try {

  doSomething();

  handleError(e);

  logSomething();

```

I'm not saying that they're 100% equivalent, but I was thinking of the `try` block as if it's `rescue` when really it has more in common with `begin` in Ruby in that it's defining a block of code that can be rescued/caught if an error occurs.

So I guess my confusion comes from this type of block being named `try` rather than something like `do` or `begin`.

TL;DR I was just thinking about this in the wrong way from what I can tell.

EDIT: Yet I think that my point might still stand in that, if `try` is just a block that has its own scope, like an if-block or `begin` in Ruby, then it should be possible to not require either `catch` or `finally` since its own behavior has little to do with error handling.

For instance, this is possible:

```

let x = 'foo';

try {

  let x = 'bar'; 

  // noop

console.log(x); // foo

```

The try-block would be way more useful if it could just define scope without being tied specifically to error handling. There are lots of circumstances where defining scope would be handy outside of conditionals and creating functions for a similar purpose.

I guess what might have made the most sense, if JS could have started over, is that there'd be no `try` statement and that `do` could be used in its place.

```

const words = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'];

let i = 0;

do {

  console.log(words[i]);
  
  i++;

  console.error('whoops!');

```

We can't go back now since JS, for good reasons, is remaining mostly backwards-compatible. But the ability to do the above without extra gymnastics would be pretty cool.