From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-08-26T05:21:15+09:00
Subject: Re: and and or priority

Elliot Temple wrote:
> 
> On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Alex Young wrote:
> 
>> Pavel Smerk wrote:
>>> OMG!
>>> Why the and and or operators have the same priority? Unlike && and || 
>>> and also unlike the most of, or maybe all, other languages and 
>>> conventions?
>> Good question.
>>
>> irb(main):001:0> true and false or true and false
>> => false
>>
>> tells me that and binds tighter than or, unless something unobvious is 
>> going on, which might well be...
>>
>> Have you got a counterexample handy?
> 
> irb(main):008:0> true or true and false
> => false
> 
Good counter-example :-)  Now I understand.  It seems to be evaluated in 
terms of the first encountered.  Unless...  that's wrong too?  :-)

-- 
Alex