From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-02-15T15:57:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Drying a ternary condition

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Marcello Barnaba wrote:

> How would you write the following statement:
>
> klass.send((ARGV[0] || :up).to_sym == :up ? :up : :down)
>
> ?
>
> Thanks :)

i would just do this

   klass.send( ARGV[0] || 'up' )

and live with the exception, which will no less clear than

   program.rb UP

sending the msg ':down' silently

regards.

-a
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