From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T18:18:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Favorite idiom for "keep doing this until it returns nil/false"

Hi --

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, William James wrote:

> On Sep 24, 2:27 pm, Phrogz <phr...@mac.com> wrote:
>> I want to keep running gsub! on a string until it returns nil. How do
>> you prefer to do this?
>>
>> true while str.gsub!( ... )
>
> Less prolix:
>
> 0 while str.gsub!( ... )

I wouldn't worry; the first version isn't exactly "War and Peace" :-)
I dislike the throwaway nature of both of them anyway.


David

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