From: chris@...
Date: 2014-11-12T15:37:53+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:66230] [ruby-trunk - Feature #10498] Make `loop` yield a	counter

Issue #10498 has been updated by Chris Seaton.


But doesn't this mean #loop will only run FIXNUM_MAX times? Rather than run infinitely as it currently does? That's a pretty big semantic change. Also, why not just overflow to Bignum?

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Feature #10498: Make `loop` yield a counter
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10498#change-49917

* Author: Franck Verrot
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: ruby-core
* Category: core
* Target version: current: 2.2.0
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# Problem

Teaching Ruby, we always end up with that type of construct

`i = 0
loop do
  i += 1
  # do something with i....
  raise StopIteration if i ...
end
`

# Solution

What I propose with this patch is making `loop` yield the iteration count:

`loop do |i|
  # do something with i....
  raise StopIteration if i ...
end
`

`i` starts at 0 and stops at `FIXNUM_MAX` (there's no `Float::Infinity` equivalent for integers).

# Alternate solution

`Integer#times` could work if we had an `<Integer's infinity>` object, so we would just do `<Integer's Infinity>.times { |i| ... }`.

Also, this is the very first patch I submit to Ruby, I might have done something horrible, feel free to tell me :-)

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0001-vm_eval.c-loop-now-yields-a-incremented-counter.patch (1.74 KB)


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