From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-12-06T02:48:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Book for People Who Aren't (Yet) Programmers

Hi --

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Chris Pine wrote:

> Here's what I consider to be one of the last programs before variables are
> introduced, and it uses a different kind of loop:
>
>   puts 'Type something, will ya?  Then press "Enter".'
>
>   while (true)
>     if (gets == 'quit')
>       break
>     else
>       puts 'Type "quit" to quit!'
>     end
>   end
>
>   puts 'Very good!  Good-bye.'
>
> So... thoughts?

gets == 'quit' won't happen, because the string will be 'quit\n' :-)


David

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