From: Hunter Walker <walkerhunter@...>
Date: 2009-01-23T09:57:11+09:00
Subject: Re: simple ruby program problem

Rob Biedenharn wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Hunter Walker wrote:
> 
>>  while (reply != 'yes' || reply != 'no')
> 
> 
> Well, this is effectively and infinite loop becasue reply will always
> be != to one or the other and the whole expression will be true.
> 
> Since you have a return statement in a couple places, this might not
> be a problem for this program.
> 
> -Rob
> 
> Rob Biedenharn    http://agileconsultingllc.com
> Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com

Yeah, good point.  You are right though, the return statement does stop 
the loop.  See attached screen shot for what happens....

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