From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2008-03-03T23:16:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Normal For Loop

Cory Cory wrote:
> I'm new to Ruby.  Is there such thing as a C++ style (and most others)
> for loop in Ruby?  What I mean by that is:
>
> for( init, while-condition, increment ) { function-here }
>
> I know I can do that with a while loop, but I enjoy the compactness of
> the above statement.  There are many times where Ruby's for-each loops
> just don't do the trick.
>   

We would be very interested to see a loop in C that cannot be rewritten 
in Ruby. Care to give us an example?

> Also, is there anything like i++ or do I always have to do i=i+1 ?
>   
You can use i += 1.