From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-05-26T15:49:27+09:00
Subject: Re: exiting of a block

Hi,

In message "exiting of a block"
    on 03/05/26, Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@wanadoo.fr> writes:

|result1 = [1, 2, 3].find { |e|
|	if e == 2
|		return true
|	else
|		return false
|	end
|}
|(with several if/else one in each other rather than one big condition, for 
|code readability)
|
|but I realised that 'return' does not apply to a block, but only to a 
|function. it's a bit (actually very) un-intuitive for me, but anyway, is 
|there a nicer solution than doing my current:

If you switch to 1.8.0, there's nicer way:

  result = [1, 2, 3].find { |e|
          if e == 2
                  break true
          else
                  break false
          end
  }

							matz.