From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-09-05T11:47:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Re-evaluating a 'case'

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:56:55AM +0900, Dan Debertin wrote:
> I was reminded of this problem by the recent 'breaking out of case'
> thread. I have a 'case' statement that evaluates a condition:
> 
> case cond
> when 'thing1'
>   ...do thing1 stuff...
> when 'thing2'
>   ...do thing2 stuff...
>   cond = 'thing1'
> end

I don't think its better, and in some ways worse :)

casefunc = proc { |cond|
  case cond
  when 'thing1'
    ...do thing1 stuff...
  when 'thing2'
    ...do thing2 stuff...
    cond = 'thing1'
    casefunc.call(cond)
 end
}
casefunc.call(cond)


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