From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-01-31T15:32:18+09:00
Subject: Re: break out of a loop

Vivek Nallur wrote:
> Is there an idiomatic(or more elegant way) of finding out whether I exited
> a loop normally or because of an exceptional condition?

In 1.7 you can do

x = loop do break 3 end
p x   # ==> 3