Re: [jruby-user] Range Oddity

The 3rd snippet is the only valid style.

Obviously a refactoring uncompleted or untested.
On Nov 9, 2014 7:18 AM, "Keith Bennett" <[email protected]> wrote:

> All -
>
> I'm having a strange issue and am wondering if you might know anything
> about it.
>
> I'm troubleshooting a piece of code that has something like this in it:
>
> 0..16.times { ... }
>
> I believe the 0.. is extraneous and the code should behave as:
>
> 0..(16.times { ... } )
>
> And the return value of the expression is not used so I think it should be
> equivalent to simply:
>
> 16.times { ... }
>
> However, sometimes when this code is run the block appears to execute 0
> times instead of 16.  This happens only when the code is run in JRuby
> (jruby-1.7.16 and jruby-1.6.8 on both OS X and Linux); not on MRI Ruby
> 1.9.3 and 2.1.4.
>
> Unfortunately I'm unable to provide a minimal test case.
>
> Does this ring a bell for anyone?  Any clue as to what might be happening?
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
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