From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-09-08T23:06:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Order of Operations Question

Zach Dennis wrote:

> I am trying to get the following to work:
>
> dir = Dir.new( d ) if( File.directory?( d=$*.shift ) )
> puts d
> puts dir
>
> d always outputs correctly, but dir always outputs nil. I tried
>
> puts d if( File.directory?( d=$*.shift ) )
>
> and d is outputted correctly. Why doesn't my first statement work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zach
>
Please ignore...i realized I was passing in a nonexistent directory.

Zach