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user2221533
user2221533

Reputation: 13

How do I write my own loop_until?

I'm practicing my Ruby meta-programming and trying to write my own loop method that will handle most of the ugliness in listening to a socket, but give the programmer the chance to specify the loop break condition and a block of things to do after each IO.select/sleep cycle.

What I want to be able to write is something like this:

x = 1
while_listening_until( x == 0 ) do
  x = rand(10)
  puts x
end

What I've been able to make work is:

def while_listening_until( params, &block )

  break_cond = params[ :condition ] || "false"
  loop {
    #other listening things are happening here
    yield
    break if params[:binding].eval( break_cond )
  }
end

x = 1
while_listening_until( :condition => "x==0", :binding => binding() ) do
  x = rand(10)
  puts x
end

So, how do I make all that eval and binding ugliness go away?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 82

Answers (1)

PinnyM
PinnyM

Reputation: 35531

This is where lambdas are handy:

def while_listening_until( condition, &block )
  loop {
    #other listening things are happening here
    yield
    break if condition.call
  }
end

x = 1
while_listening(lambda{ x == 0 }) do
  x = rand(10)
  puts x
end

Upvotes: 2

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