From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-08-29T02:09:52+09:00
Subject: Re: How to call this method

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Robert
Klemme<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 28.08.2009 17:22, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
>  > Am Freitag, 28. Aug 2009, 22:17:21 +0900 schrieb Robert Klemme:
>>>
>>> 2009/8/28 Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> http://pastie.org/597659
>>>
>>> I didn't know StopIteration yet.  That's nice.
>>
>> I didn't know it either.  Is there anything that `break' cannot
>> do better?
>
> Multilevel exit like you can also do with catch throw (see Find.find).
Yep, by using "raise StopIteration" I make my intent a little bit
clearer and it is less fragile
in case I am getting embedded into other blox. But that is not the
case here, I agree.

I think it might also having been built for Enumerator#next

loop do
    ...
    an_enum.next # might raise StopIteration
    ...
end

HTH
R.