From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-10-09T17:55:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Enumerable#inject is surprising me...

>>>>> "d" == dblack  <dblack@superlink.net> writes:

d>   $ ./ruby -e 'p ["a"].inject("start") {|x,y| break "b"}'
d>   "start"

d> I'm still not understanding why these should be different, or how
d> "start" gets into the first one (the first block) at all.

svg% ruby -e 'p ["x", "y"].inject("a") {|x,y| break 12 if y == "y"; x + y}'
"ax"
svg% 

 #inject ignore the value returned by break, and return the last result.

 In your case, because it exit at the first iteration it return the initial
 value "start"


Guy Decoux