From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.lng.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-07-13T04:04:26+09:00
Subject: Re: do...end vs. begin..end

il Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:13:28 +0100, "daz" <dooby@d10.karoo.co.uk> ha
scritto::


>>
>
>That's my (less-experienced) understanding, also.
>There is a method in Kernel called 'loop' which provides:
>
>  loop do
>    puts 'something'
>    break #  on some condition
>  end
>
>but the need rarely arises.
>
well, that is the same thing...try with

loop {
}

this is one of those typical 'other language in ruby' thing :)


>
>I'll live dangerously and say that begin...end are there for when you
>have the requirement, whereas do...end is required almost immediately
>and is very common in both its forms (the brace form, as Brian
>mentioned above, is [#] identical).


just forget 'block':
do..end delimits the code for a Proc object
begin..end enclose a part of your code, mainly to be used with
rescue/ensure statements

my 2c