From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-core@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T06:17:18+09:00
Subject: Re: semenatics of if/unless/while statement modifiers

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> > > > moulon% ruby -e 'i = 0; begin puts i; end while i > 0' |0

> > > Don't use it please.  I'm regretting this feature, and I'd like to
> > > remove it in the future if it's possible.

> > I'm surprised.  What do you regret about it?

> Because it's hard for users to tell
> 
>   begin <code> end while <cond>
> 
> works differently from
> 
>   <code> while <cond>

If anything comes out of this discussion (I'm still doubtful), I hope
that this will be it.  I've found the difference in behavior confusing;
only once, but since then I've stayed away from the begin ... end
version and just used the latter.  It's just too confusing that they do
different things.

        nikolai

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