From: GGarramuno@... (GGarramuno) Date: 2004-01-03T03:01:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Loop/Iterator questions Austin Ziegler wrote in message news:<20041211319.014174@PADD>... > > I'm not sure you need either condition, really, as Ruby's iteratorrs > tend to be far better in most circumstances. > > -austin Well, the idea of the continue block is to do more than a single decrementing of a variable (else, indeed an iterator should indeed suffice). My example was just a dummy one. The ensure example and the use of catch address both perl features perfectly with the equivalent rubyisms.