From: Daniel Harple <dharple@...>
Date: 2006-03-25T04:05:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug: Syntax error when using 'or' keyword

On Mar 24, 2006, at 7:22 PM, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> There was a thread about this recently on ruby-core.  Matz summed up
> the situation as follows:
>
>   OK.  Keyword logical operators (and, or, not) are far lower  
> precedence
>   than comma, even lower than method calls without argument  
> parentheses
>   (in parser, they are called as commands), so that they are not  
> allowed
>   be a part of argument expression.

Thanks, I should have checked ruby-core archives before posting.

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/7553

-- Daniel