From: Chris Alfeld <chris.alfeld@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T03:53:52+09:00
Subject: Re: How to break out deeply nested loops? (newbie)

Not nicely.

This is discussed in the Pickaxe.  For example

catch "BreakOuterLoop" do
  for i in 1..10
    print "out #{i}\n"
    for j in 1..10
      print "in #{j}\n"
      throw "BreakOuterLoop" if i+j > 16
    end
  end
end

On 3/30/06, Talha Oktay <toktay@gmail.com> wrote:
> I sometimes need to break out, next or redo deeply nested loops in different
> levels instead of the innermost enclosing scope. Is there a facility to
> label blocks or loops  and  redo, next or break to the labeled blocks or
> loops as in some other programming languages?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>