From: Paul Smith <paul@...>
Date: 2009-09-30T01:32:11+09:00
Subject: Re: syntax translation Java - Ruby

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Jake Brightmatter
<brightmatter@gmail.com> wrote:
> have this code in Java:
>
> boolean monkey = true;
> for(i=0; monkey; i++){
>  if(index[i] == null) {
>    put.something.new(i);
>    break;
>  }
> }
>
> I am aware that it makes no sense by itself so I will explain.  I am
> iterating through a (Sequel) database nodes.  I am looking for a node
> I.D. that is not being used.  Basically, I am looking for and open
> parking spot.  When I find one, I insert my new data using the newly
> found parking spot. I really can't figure out why I need to uniquely
> identify each node by an I.D. as it is already uniquely identified by
> location in the tree but that is a different matter entirely.  All I
> need is how to write a nice infinite 'for' loop in Ruby.

loop {}

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>



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