From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-05-24T06:36:32+09:00
Subject: Re: How to "go to" in a RUBY script . . .

On 5/23/06, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/23/06, Simen <toalett@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There's also continuations. They're not only for web frameworks, you
> > know. It's fairly easy to write something goto-like with continuations.
> > I once did, for fun. You could do stuff like
> >
> >   label :loop
> >     [code]
> >   goto :loop
> >
> > Easy to abuse, fun to write. Still, catch/throw should be sufficient
> > most of the time.
>
> This did sound fun, here is my quick and dirty implementation:

I am so amazed by how versatile and expressive Ruby is. It's almost as
if it was designed in a way that made a whole lot of things possible
even though the designer(s) didn't think of them. Thanks Matz!

I don't know if I'll ever use continuations but it's good to have the
tool in the shed.

Les