From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-01-31T15:38:57+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?
> 
> e.g
> 
found = catch :found do
> 10.times{
> 	# some processing
> 
> 	#if (some condition)
                 throw :found, true
> 		break
> 	end
> 
> 	#further processing
         false
> }
end
> 
> # here i want to know if I came out because of the break or after looping
> 10 times.
if found
   ...

This works in 1.6, too.