From: Chris Pine <nemo@...>
Date: 2002-12-06T03:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Book for People Who Aren't (Yet) Programmers

----- Original Message -----
Why not use loop do ... end?  I find it more natural than while(true) ...
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Yeah, I thought about that.  I decided against it because I wanted to put
off 'do' for as long as possible.  I remember getting confused when code
like this didn't work:

  if (foo < 5) do
    puts 'foo is relatively small.'
  end

I understand now why it doesn't work, but until I really explain blocks, I
want to avoid using them.

Chris