Ruby has some of these, too, thanks to its Perl heritage. puts "It worked!" unless error i = 0; puts "Item: #{i+=1}" while i < 5 Unfortunately foreach

Ruby has some of these, too, thanks to its Perl heritage. puts "It worked!" unless error i = 0; puts "Item: #{i+=1}" while i < 5 Unfortunately foreach didn't survive, but thankfully arrays have methods to achieve similar concision: items.each {|i| puts "Item: #{i}"}