From: Wojciech Kaczmarek <schatten@...>
Date: 2003-03-13T16:17:42+09:00
Subject: Re: next iteration within a block

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:46:49 +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
>> What is the most short/elegant way of ending the current iteration
>> within a block? My first thought was that `next' will break the
>> iteration and last evaluated expr will be returned to the caller, but
>> surprisingly `nil' is returned this way, so we have (Ruby 1.6.8):
>>
>> ['bar','quux'].map {'foo'; next; 42}
>> => [nil, nil]
> 
> Try
> 
> [1,2].map {|i| next 'b' if i < 2; 'a'}
>=> ["b", "a"]

Seems that `next <expr>' syntax is not available in 1.6.x.

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