From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-02-19T20:54:51+09:00
Subject: Re: For loops don't count down

On 2/19/07, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:28:36 +0100, Michael Fellinger
> <m.fellinger@gmail.com> wrote:
> > what it essentially does is:
> >
> > (1..5).to_a.reverse.each do |number|
> >   puts number
> > end
> >
>
> Syntactically, I'd prefer "for number in 5..1" to that monstrous method
> chain any day of the week.
Completely agree, for esthetically reasoning.
But in practice, I am afraid that there is no way to have this David.
As we need 5..1 to be an empty range, or am I blocked?
>
> David Vallner
>
>
Robert

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