From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2004-06-03T03:31:59+09:00
Subject: A bug in logical 'or' with regexp?


I am still using Ruby 1.6.8 and just came across a very strange thing

( nil || %r{abc} )

yields false no matter what regular expression you use, while,

( nil || 3)

yields 3, as it should.

Is it a known issue for 1.6.8? I checked that everything works fine in 
1.8.1.

Here's more information from irb:

[linux.gfbs:449]gfb-ems-session_1> ruby -v
ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i686-linux]
[linux.gfbs:450]gfb-ems-session_1> irb
irb(main):001:0> nil || 3
=> 3  # OK
irb(main):002:0> nil || //
=> nil # WRONG
irb(main):003:0> nil || %r{abc}
=> nil # WRONG
irb(main):004:0> ( (nil) || (%r{abc}) )
=> nil # WRONG
irb(main):005:0> nil || "abc"
=> "abc" # OK
irb(main):006:0>

Thank you,
Gennady.