On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, rise wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Seo ji won wrote:
>
> > but what I want to do is something like this ( sorry, in python semantics,
> > functions, ;-)
>
> It's a change from the Perl-ish pseudocode. :)
>
> > for i in range(0,100,5):
> >     print i
>
> 0.step( 100, 5 ) { |i|
> 	print i
> }
>
> > p.s) How can I find such things?.. I've tried language/library reference,
> > but in vain.
>
> One of the nicer features of ri is that something like 'ri Integer' gives
> you a list of the methods for an Integer object (it takes a little getting
> used to if you come from Perl or Python to think of step or upto as
> methods of an int) of which step looks like a good candidate.

Or even just take a chance and try:  ri step  :-)


David

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