While vs loop

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1

what is the Difference between loop and while in ruby ?

loop do
end

while 1
end

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Loop will continue indefinitely until it meets with some break statement
somewhere in its loop body.

While can also be terminated with a break statement, but more traditionally,
it ends when the condition specified in the while statement is satisfied.
If you have "while 1" as you've written here though, the two should be
functionally equivalent.

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On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Vetrivel Vetrivel <vetrivel.bksys@gmail.com > wrote:

what is the Difference between loop and while in ruby ?

loop do
end

while 1
end
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Hi,

At Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:03:03 +0900,
Vetrivel Vetrivel wrote in [ruby-talk:328175]:

what is the Difference between loop and while in ruby ?

loop do
end

loop is a kernel method which takes a block. A block
introduces new local variable scope.

  loop do
    a = 1
    break
  end
  p a #=> causes NameError

while 1
end

while doesn't.

  while 1
    a = 1
    break
  end
  p a #=> 1

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4

furthermore loop do has an implicit rescue clause for a StopIteration exception
(I believe 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 only IIRC)

therefore

loop do
   some_enumerator.next
end
becomes a convenient idiom.

HTH
Robert

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On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

Hi,

At Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:03:03 +0900,
Vetrivel Vetrivel wrote in [ruby-talk:328175]:

what is the Difference between loop and while in ruby ?

loop do
end

loop is a kernel method which takes a block. A block
introduces new local variable scope.

loop do
   a = 1
   break
end
p a #=> causes NameError

while 1
end

while doesn't.

while 1
   a = 1
   break
end
p a #=> 1

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Hi,

At Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:03:03 +0900,
Vetrivel Vetrivel wrote in [ruby-talk:328175]:
> what is the Difference between loop and while in ruby ?
>

loop is a kernel method which takes a block. A block
introduces new local variable scope.

while doesn't.

In other words:

  $ irb
  irb(main):001:0> Kernel.private_instance_methods.grep /loop/
  => ["loop"]
  irb(main):002:0> Kernel.private_instance_methods.grep /while/
  =>

Bertram

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Am Samstag, 14. Feb 2009, 15:16:16 +0900 schrieb Nobuyoshi Nakada:

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