From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-04-27T23:26:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14327] Re: || .. or Question

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:14299] Re: || .. or Question"
    on 01/04/27, Marko Schulz <in6x059@public.uni-hamburg.de> writes:

|> Simply precedence reason.  In Ruby, statements are expressions that
|> can't be fit in argument list. 
|
|Does this mean, that Ruby has an 'list operator' similar to perl with
|precedence between '||' and 'or'? Otherwise I still don't understand
|how precedence comes in here.

No, no "list operator".  But it's little bit too complicated for me to
explain in English (sorry).  Would somebody explain for him?

|The trouble strikes with parenthesis around the 'a or/|| b'. Looks
|like other languages do an implicit expression grouping for method
|arguments with parenthesis around them. I find this to be the expected
|behaviour too. 
|
|Does anybody see incompatibilities if this was done in ruby too? Other
|objections?

I don't think I understand what you mean by "implicit expression
grouping for method arguments with parenthesis around them".  But I
suspect changing this behavior in any way causes incompatibility.
I may be wrong, as always.

							matz.