From: Jakub Travnik <j.travnik@...>
Date: 2001-10-29T09:20:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23701] Re: newbie syntax question?

Chochain Lee wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I ran into something like the following code which gave me a small
> surprise. Can some explain why?
> 


> puts (123 && 456).type    # => 456

same as
(puts (123 && 456)).type

123 && 456
is 456
puts will print 456
type will be applied to result of puts and thrown away

> puts ((123 && 456).type)  # => Fixnum


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