From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-05-05T17:49:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Different Ways To Loop

2008/5/4 Wyatt Greene <greenewm@yahoo.com>:
> 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...

I haven't seen 'retry' so far:

10:48:13 RTEConnector$ ruby -e 'i=0;begin;puts i;raise
"X";rescue;i+=1;retry if i<=10;end'
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10:48:25 RTEConnector$

Cheers

robert

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