From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-11-11T23:48:29+09:00
Subject: Re: array.each restart when array is changed


"David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0411110542180.12257-100000@wobblini...
> Hi --
>
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Robert Klemme wrote:
>
> >
> > "Kevin B�rgens" <kevin@boergens.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:2vfjurF2ljhdfU1@uni-berlin.de...
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > >
> > > How to restart a "each" iteration when the iterated array is
changed? I
> > do
> > > it like this
> > >
> > > changed=false
> > > while (changed)
> > > changed=false
> > > array.each {|e|
> > >   if (today_is_christmas)
> > >     array=array+=["Hello santa claus"]
> >
> > This is sufficient:
> > array += +=["Hello santa claus"]
>
> Do you mean array += ["Hello santa clause"]  ?

Well, you will have to patch the Ruby parser - but then it's sufficient.
:-))

Of course I meant to put only one "+=" there. :-)  "a = a += x" is one
assignment too much.

>  (See my earlier
> response -- actually, don't, because except for that, it probably
> wasn't very good :-)

Um, which one?  I can't see another post of you in this thread.  Weired...

    robert