From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-03-25T15:15:19+09:00
Subject: Re: exiting a loop

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: exiting a loop


> On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 6:28:29 AM, Eric wrote:
> 
> > Daniel Carrera (dcarrera@math.umd.edu) wrote:
> 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> How can you exit a loop mid-way?:
> >> 
> >> while condition1
> >>       ...
> >>       last if condition2
> >>       ...
> >> end
> 
> > callcc do |end|
> >   while condition1
> >     end.call if condition2
> >   end
> > end
> 
> 
> catch(:finished) do
>   while cond1
>     throw :finished if cond2
>   end
> end

What's wrong with a simple 'break'?  :)

To swat a fly, use a flyswatter.

Hal