From: David.Stagner@... Date: 2002-09-11T01:47:07+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 005C0FA586256C30_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" And every time i look at Ruby, it just gets cooler and cooler. :} A couple of years ago, i thought "forever" was an original idea. I didn't know matz was way ahead of me! Another month or so, and i can start using Ruby for serious work rather than toy programs. I'm looking forward to it. Christian Szegedy 09/10/02 11:34 AM Please respond to ruby-talk To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML) cc: 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 --=_alternative 005C0FA586256C30_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
And every time i look at Ruby, it just gets cooler and cooler. :}  A couple of years ago, i thought "forever" was an original idea.  I didn't know matz was way ahead of me!

Another month or so, and i can start using Ruby for serious work rather than toy programs.  I'm looking forward to it.



Christian Szegedy <szegedy@nospam.or.uni-bonn.de>

09/10/02 11:34 AM
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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

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