From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2007-01-15T20:56:33+09:00
Subject: Re: cannot return negative value ?

On 15/01/07, Peter Szinek <peter@rubyrailways.com> wrote:
> Josselin wrote:
> > I got the following error :
> >
> > parse error, unexpected tUMINUS_NUM
> >
> >  userCredential.flagged? ? return -1 : return 1
> You mean
>
> return userCredential.flagged? -1 :  1
>
> ?
>
> I am not sure in Ruby, but if it's the same than in C or anywhere else,
> the ternary operator evaluates to a value, and you can not really
> execute things like this inside...
>
> Cheers,
> Peter

This seems to work though

 userCredentials.flagged? ? (return -1) : (return 1)

Farrel