From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2007-10-26T08:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Skip the first invocation e.g. skip_first { foo }

On Oct 25, 6:50 pm, Gary Wright <gwtm...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Brian Adkins wrote:
>
> > Consider the following code:
>
> > first = true
> > 3.times do
> >   if first
> >     first = false
> >   else
> >     puts 'foo'
> >   end
> >   ...
> > end
>
> 3.times do |i|
>    print '2nd or more: ' unless i.zero?
>    puts "iteration: #{i}"
> end

I guess I wasn't clear enough. This should work in any type of
iteration, so a loop index may not be available. For example:

foo.each do |bar|
  skip_first { ... }
  ...
end