From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-08-07T21:37:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19286] Re: Help with ternary operator syntax and grammar

Hello --

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Ryo Furue wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm fairly new to Ruby and writing small scripts with the pickaxe
> book.  I can't understand what's wrong with this:
>
> 	cond = true
> 	print (cond? ", " : "\n")
>
> which gives you a "parse error" at line 2.  The following gives you
> the same error (first line elided):

You need a space between cond and '?', because it's possible for there
to be a method called #cond?


David

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