From: Michael Studman <me@...>
Date: 2006-10-20T23:14:23+09:00
Subject: Re: break from block

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I'm not sure it's the Ruby way (I'm too new to Ruby to judge) but how 
about:

block = lambda{|i| i > 5 ? throw(:enough) : nil}
n = 10

catch(:enough) do
   n.times &block
end


> I've just run into the following problem. Doing this:
> block = lambda{|i| i > 5 ? break : nil}
>  n.times &block
> raises a LocalJumpError, I assume because break is not valid from
> within a Proc object. Is there any way to get around this?
>
> Farrel
>
>



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