From: Steve Grazzini <s_grazzini@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T08:56:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

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

And REXX has the genuine article:

  do forever
    ...
  end

-- 
Steve

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