From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-12-04T11:22:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Everyone's favorite flow control: retry

MonkeeSage wrote:
> As I understand, it's like a label in C. Charles' first example is
> equivalent to something like this...
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> void foo(int (*pf)(const char *f, ...), char *a) {
>   (*pf)("%s\n", a);
> }
> int main() {
> retry:
>   foo(&printf, "123");
>   goto retry;
>   return 0;
> }

It's more than that...here's some pseudo C code:

void foo() { goto retry; }
int main() {
retry:
   foo();
   return 0;
}

Retry outside a rescue actually allows you to jump back across call 
boundaries and start an invocation again. Scary.

- Charlie