From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-03-03T23:19:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Normal For Loop

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Cory Cory <cg821105@ohio.edu> 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.

There is 5.times {|i| } if the count is known at cycle start.
Then you have array.each {}, and the whole bunch from Enumerable
(each_with_index, select, find, map, inject, ...)