From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2006-10-22T02:25:12+09:00
Subject: Re: break from block

Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

block = lambda{|i| p i; i > 5 ? throw(:done) : nil}
catch(:done) {42.times &block}

m.

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