From: furufuru@... (Ryo Furue)
Date: 2001-12-20T07:28:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29025] Re: What's the Ruby way of doing:

"Nightblade" <nightblade@no.spam.thanks.com> wrote in message news:<3c20413e$0$23428$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
[...]
> > print "extra info here" unless $quiet
> 
> However IMHO that is harder to read, sort of around the wrong way, a
> backward sentence.  I guess I like the "short circuit" to be obvious, at the
> left (start) of the line, since I read left-to-right :-)

What about this then?

   # somewhere ...
   $quiet = false
   # ....
   # ... later
   !$quiet and print "extra info here"

I think the logic is the same as the "unless $quiet" version.  The
following may be more natural than the above:

   $quiet or print "extra info here"

Regards,
Ryo