From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@...>
Date: 2002-11-12T07:24:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Lighting Rod

dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:

>   $ ruby -e '3.times {|x| p x}'
>   0
>   1
>   2
>
> >     I saw one page that said it cycled through
> >     indices 0,1,2,3. Hopefully, that was an error!
>
> Can you find that page?  I wonder if there was confusion because
> in irb you see a '3' at the end of the list (which is actually the
> return value of the call to #times).

Ah. I'll bet that was it. I'll see if I can find the page.
I'll bet it was the return value. The loop was echoing the
index, producing the result 0,1,2,3 !