[ruby-talk:02073] Re: eval.rb fails

The doc is fine, this happens only if you try to execute 'until' block 
interactively using eval.rb, but if you put the whole 'until' block inside a 
script, it works.

Dat

>From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <[e-mail]>
>Reply-To: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail] (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: [ruby-talk:02071] Re: eval.rb fails
>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:29:33 +0000 (GMT)
>
>On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In message "[ruby-talk:02057] eval.rb fails"
> >     on 00/03/21, "Dat Nguyen" <[e-mail]> writes:
> >
> > |eval.rb fails to evaluate the 'until' loop:
> > |ruby> i = 0
> > |ruby> until i >= 10
> > |ERR: (eval):1:in 'eval': compile error
> > |(eval):1: parse error
> >
> > The newline terminates the statement, so that poor Ruby does not
> > understand the relationship between `i = 0' and a `until' modifier.
> >
>Then there is a "dent" in the documentation:
>
>until
>
>Examples:
>
>         until sunrise
>           sleep
>         end
>
>Syntax:
>
>         until expr [do]
>           ...
>         end
>
>Executes body until condition expression returns true.
>
>which is quoted from ruby-man-1.4/syntax.html#until
>I could not get it to work with do
>ruby> i = 0
>0
>ruby> until i == 10 do
>ERR: (eval):1: compile error
>(eval):1: parse error
>ruby>
>
>	Hugh
>	[e-mail]
>
>

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