From: Hans Mackowiak <lists@...>
Date: 2013-03-06T03:33:50+09:00
Subject: Re: How `next` works in ruby with `unless` ?

Kumar R. wrote in post #1100229:
> Kumar R. wrote in post #1100105:
>> John W Higgins wrote in post #1100104:
>>> What do you think the only possible order of execution would be? It's
>>> not
>>
>> I did that after reading the description - `The `next` statement is used
>> to skip a part of the loop and continue with the next iteration of the
>> loop.`
>
>> line : "next puts "hi" unless n == 5 " .
>
> next generally used to skip the part of execution and send the control
> to the beginning. But how the in between part puts "hi" has been
> executed. Why does next not skip this statement ?



its because puts "hi" is evaluated first and THEN the result of it is 
given to the next keyword (in the case of puts it is nil)

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