From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T01:34:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

David.Stagner@mpls.frb.org wrote:
> 
> On a vaguely related note, i was working on a language for a while with 
> a friend of mine.  My favorite contribution to the language was a 
> keyword i haven't seen elsewhere... "forever", to imply an infinite 
> loop.  So to create an infinite loop, you would write
> 
> forever { ... }
> 
> rather than
> 
> while(true) { ... }
> 

Just a remark: Ruby has "loop { }" which is the same as
your "forever".

Regards, Christian