From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-03-27T20:34:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Evaluator for a mini-Ruby in Haskell


"Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@aracnet.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:d24b8d02fq1@enews4.newsguy.com...
> In article <3alo9bF6d2vo8U1@individual.net>,
> Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>I'm surprised about "retry", too.  His analysis sounds all very 
>>resonable -
>>only that "break" does not work for me but "return" does:
>>
>>>> def my_while(cond)
>>>>   break unless cond
>>>>   yield
>>>>   retry
>>>> end
>>=> nil
>>>> i = 0
>>=> 0
>>>> my_while i < 10 do
>>?>   puts i
>>>>   i += 1
>>>> end
>>0
>>1
>>2
>>3
>>4
>>5
>>6
>>7
>>8
>>9
>>LocalJumpError: unexpected break
>>        from (irb):2:in `my_while'
>>        from (irb):7
>
>
> Hmmm...  break works find for me in 1.8.2.  Time to upgrade?

Yeah, maybe.

>>Btw, can anybody think of a way to make my_while return the result of the
>>last block evaluation?  It seems impossible because the return occurs 
>>before
>>the yield...
>>
>
>
> How about:
>
>  def my_while(cond)
>    return @ret unless cond
>    @ret = yield
>    retry
>  end

Not thread safe.  And I think also not nesting safe.

Cheers

    robert