From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-09-26T21:41:42+09:00
Subject: Re: String#ggsub

David A. Black wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Trans wrote:
>
>> Sorry, just woke up:
>>
>>  def rep
>>    r = yield until r.nil?
>>  end
>>
>
> Or (modeled on some earlier suggestions):
>
>    def rep
>      true until yield.nil?
>    end
>
> or if false is OK:
>
>    def rep
>      true while yield
>    end
>
> I love watching Ruby code progressively disappear from the screen (and
> still be clear) :-)

Definitely!  Now you arrived at my solution - only you use true instead of
1 (three more characters!). :-)

Kind regards

    robert