From: Truls Alexander Tangstad <trulsat@...>
Date: 2001-04-21T13:41:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13957] Bug? retry not working properly in 1.6.3

From the example in "Ruby User's Guide", section 9, "Iterators", there is an
example of a while implemention. In Ruby 1.6.3 the code results in the
following:

ruby> def WHILE(cond)
    |    return if not cond
    |    yield
    |    retry
    | end
   nil
ruby> i=0; WHILE(i<3) { print i; i+=1 }
0   nil

First off, i'm guessing the example is flawed, as 'i<3' is only evaluated
once, so the WHILE should go into an infinite loop. 

The actual problem is that retry doesn't restart the loop.

Is this a bug, or am I missing something here?

- Truls Tangstad