  In some recent papers, the authors considered regular continued fractions of
the form \[ [a_{0};\underbrace{a,...,a}_{m}, \underbrace{a^{2},...,a^{2}}_{m},
\underbrace{a^{3},...,a^{3}}_{m}, ... ], \] where $a_{0} \geq 0$, $a \geq 2$
and $m \geq 1$ are integers. The limits of such continued fractions, for
general $a$ and in the cases $m=1$ and $m=2$, were given as ratios of certain
infinite series.
  However, these formulae can be derived from known facts about two continued
fractions of Ramanujan. Motivated by these observations, we give alternative
proofs of the results of the previous authors for the cases $m=1$ and $m=2$ and
also use known results about other $q$-continued fractions investigated by
Ramanujan to derive the limits of other infinite families of regular continued
fractions.
