From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-11T09:26:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

Hi --

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Steve Grazzini wrote:

> 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

I dunno... I was wondering which was more genuine.  As David S. said,
"forever" implies an infinite loop.  "loop" *is* an infinite loop.

:-)


David

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