From: "Xavier Noƫlle" <xavier.noelle@...>
Date: 2010-01-23T00:44:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Argh?! :) kEND, $end and kELSE in a simple program

2010/1/22 Jet Koten <jetkoten@gmail.com>:
> Hi,

Hi !

> puts 'Say something to the virtual hard-of-hearing Grandpa:'
> while true
>  said=gets.chomp
>  year = (1930+rand(51))
>  counter=0
>  if said=='GOODBYE'
>  counter+=1
>    if counter==3
>      break
>    end
>  end
>  elsif said !=said.upcase

You closed your 'if' scope too early, then the 'elsif' became orphan
(=> remove the 'end').

> So basically it's supposed to be that it'll just loop forever unless you
> say GOODBYE three times in a row... and not just three times with
> something else in between.

The problem is that you reset the counter at the beginning of each
loop iteration.
"counter = 0" gets called after your program has determined what you
said (=> put it before the loop and that should do the trick ;-))

-- 
Xavier NOELLE