From: Merrie <merries@...>
Date: 2007-04-10T01:23:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Infinate Loop - Please Advise

Oh..silly me, thank you all!

Merrie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Joyce" <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Infinate Loop - Please Advise


> You have no looping structure.
> 
> block of code for loop should be contained by
> {...}
> for one-liners, or
> do ... end
> for multi-line blocks.
> try:
> 
>    beerno =99
>     while beerno > 0 do
>         puts "#{beerno} bottles of beer on the wall, take one down,  
> pass it around,"
>         beerno = beerno - 1
>         puts   "#{beerno} bottles of beer on the wall."
>     end
>    end
> 
> of course, there are many ways to build this same looping/iterating/ 
> enumerating structure!
> some are more rubyistic than others.
> 
> On Apr 10, 2007, at 12:44 AM, Merrie wrote:
> 
>> This program produces an infinate loop. I am learning from Learn to  
>> Program and do not have a clear example how to do this particular  
>> example. It is suppose to count down the bottles and repeat the  
>> phrase until it reach 0 bottles of beer then end :)
>>
>> Merrie
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> ---------------
>>
>> beers = 99
>> beerno = beers - 1.to_i
>> while beerno != 1
>> puts '99 bottles of beer on the wall, take one down, pass it
>> around, there are ' + beerno.to_s + 'bottles of beer on the wall.'
>>
>> end
> 
>