From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-09-26T21:52:46+09:00
Subject: Re: String#ggsub

Hi --

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Robert Klemme wrote:

> 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!). :-)

I was basing it on:
http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/157559
but was too lazy to look it up -- hence the vague attribution :-)


David

-- 
David A. Black
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