From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-04-27T09:51:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14280] Re: || .. or Question

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:14268] Re: || .. or Question"
    on 01/04/27, Marko Schulz <in6x059@public.uni-hamburg.de> writes:

|Why is 'n == 3 or n == 5' not an expression? And 
|why is 'n == 3 || n == 5' on the other hand one? 

Simply precedence reason.  In Ruby, statements are expressions that
can't be fit in argument list. 

  print a or b  #=> print(a) or b
  print a || b  #=> print(a||b)

							matz.