continue is kind of like goto. Are you familiar with break? It’s easier to think about them in contrast: break terminates the loop (jumps to the code below it). continue terminates the rest of the processing of the code within the loop for the current iteration, but continues the loop.
Yes, they do completely different things. pass simply does nothing, while continue goes on with the next loop iteration. In your example, the difference would become apparent if you added another statement after the if: After executing pass, this further statement would be executed. After continue, it wouldn’t. >>> a = [0, 1, 2] >>> … Read more
Yes, it’s called next. for i in 0..5 if i < 2 next end puts “Value of local variable is #{i}” end This outputs the following: Value of local variable is 2 Value of local variable is 3 Value of local variable is 4 Value of local variable is 5 => 0..5