From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-10-26T08:35:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Skip the first invocation e.g. skip_first { foo }


On Oct 25, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Brian Adkins wrote:

> first = true
> 3.times do
>   if first
>     first = false
>   else
>     puts 'foo'
>   end
>   ...
> end

as others have mentioned you can use the block counter that's passed  
- but in general i've done things like this before:

cfp:~ > cat a.rb
block = lambda{ block = lambda{ puts 'foo' } }
3.times{ block.call }


cfp:~ > ruby a.rb
foo
foo


which, of course, can work for things like #each too.

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