From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T22:56:22+09:00
Subject: Re: How to "go to" in a RUBY script . . .

On 5/23/06, Kirk Haines <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:
> On Monday 22 May 2006 6:04 pm, Louis J Scoras wrote:
>
> count,iterations = catch(:bailout) {do_iterations}
> puts "Bailed out after #{count} iterations.\nIterations:
> #{iterations.inspect}"
> -----
>
> catch/throw don't need to be used often, but when they are needed, they work
> great for all of the same thing that labeled loops in Perl work for, and then
> some.
>

This is great! It's exactly the way I was "abusing" exceptions, so I'm
going to change my code to use catch and throw instead.

Les