From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2007-10-26T22:15:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Skip the first invocation e.g. skip_first { foo }

On Oct 25, 7:35 pm, "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 }

Clever :) I've used a similar technique in JavaScript, but I don't
like defining the code outside of the loop, and it's also not as clear
as other solutions IMO.