From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2007-05-22T21:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: bug in ruby

sairam MP wrote:
>     if false
>       bar = 2        # never executed
>     end
>   
There is no way that this conditional will be triggered.

if expr
  ...
end

will only execute the body of the if statement if expr is true. False is 
never true (outside of politics), hence it is never executed.