From: Vivek Nallur <nvivek@...>
Date: 2003-02-03T17:45:19+09:00
Subject: Re: break out of a loop

Exactly what I wanted. Many thanks.

-Vivek
---

-->In simplest case, `break'ed iterator returns nil, otherwise
-->what will be returned depends on its specification and
-->implementation.  In this case, Integer#times returns self, so
-->you can write as:
-->
-->  finished = 10.times {
-->    if some(condition)
-->      break
-->    end
-->  }
-->  if finished
-->    puts "iterated #{finished} times"
-->  else
-->    puts "breaked"
-->  end
-->
-->

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