From: Wyatt Greene <greenewm@...>
Date: 2008-05-05T05:30:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Different Ways To Loop

On May 4, 3:22 pm, Ken Bloom <kbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 03 May 2008 19:07:12 -0700, Wyatt Greene wrote:
> > I love the flexibility of Ruby.  It gives you several ways to do
> > something, leaving you to pick the most appropriate one.  In the spirit
> > of showing off the flexibility of Ruby, I'd like to see how many
> > different ways there are to write a loop that prints the numbers 1 to
> > 100, one on each line.  I'll start off:
>
> >   1.upto(100) { |x| puts x }
>
> > I know there's at least a dozen more ways to do this...
>
> ([nil]*100).each_with_index{|_,i| puts i+1}
> Array.new(100).each_with_index{|_,i| puts i+1}
>
> --
> Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
> Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/

Nice ones, Ken!  :)

Here's another one, lifted from page 128 of "The Ruby Programming
Language":

x = 10
puts x = x + 1 while x < 100