From: Ross Bamford <rosco@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T10:28:19+09:00
Subject: Re: continuation

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:49:58 -0000, Sch端le Daniel  
<uval@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

> irb(main):005:0* cnt=0
> => 0
> irb(main):006:0> cc=nil
> => nil
> irb(main):007:0> callcc {|cc|}
> => nil
> irb(main):008:0> cnt+=1
> => 1
> irb(main):009:0> cc.call if cnt < 10
> => nil
> irb(main):010:0> cnt
> => 1
> irb(main):011:0>
> irb(main):012:0* RUBY_VERSION
> => "1.8.4"
> irb(main):013:0>
>
> this example is from
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?Continuations
> and cnt should become 10
>

I've found that certain things like continuations don't work well under  
IRB. I think it's because of the way it's workspaces work.

That code works fine as a script.

-- 
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk