From: thufir <hawat.thufir@...>
Date: 2008-03-28T15:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner's question

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:23:16 +0900, James Gray wrote:


> So, for a next step, can you just getting it printing the song lyrics
> inside the loop?  They don't need to reflect the decreasing bottle count
> yet, just get it printing something 99 times.  Of course, to do that,
> you will need to reduce the bottle variable each time so it eventually
> hits zero and cancels the loop.  Given that, you need to add one or more
> puts() statements to handle the printing and a line that does some math
> on the bottles variable.


In a sense, an infinite loop here, where it just prints:


99 bottles of beer
99 bottles of beer
99 bottles of beer
...


is ok because it gives you something to work *from*.  You know that the 
loop is executing, you know that the print statements are working...

then the question becomes:  why doesn't the number decrease?

While I haven't read the tutorial, I hope that this helps :)



-Thufir