From: Mark Ericson <mark.ericson@...>
Date: 2005-12-13T11:03:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiom wanted: do-while

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I did, and I was curious about the statement

> Because it's hard for users to tell
>
>   begin <code> end while <cond>
>
> works differently from
>
>   <code> while <cond>
>
>
in what ways are they different?  Any code examples to show the difference?


On 12/12/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>
> On Dec 12, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Adam Shelly wrote:
>
> > I was certain I had tried that....
> > But that works exactly the way I want.
>
> But hopefully you followed the Ruby Core link in this thread and saw
> Matz explaining how he would like to remove it from the language so
> we shouldn't be using it.  Stick with loop do ... end.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>

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