From: Gennady Bystritsky <Gennady.Bystritsky@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T06:03:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Immediate if method

Do you mean this?

condition ? If_true : if_false 

Gennady.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamal Mazrui [mailto:Jamal.Mazrui@fcc.gov] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 13:59
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Immediate if method
> 
> Does Ruby have a built-in equivalent of what some other languages call
> an "immediate if" function?  I want to conditionally return one of two
> strings on the status bar of an application, depending on whether a
> variable is true or false.
> 
> So far, I have written the module method below, but I'm guessing there
> is a more efficient and elegant way with Ruby.
> 
> Jamal
> 
> def if_string(condition, if_true, if_false)
> if condition
> return if_true
> else
> return if_false
> end
> end
> 
> 
>