From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-03-04T22:22:00+09:00
Subject: Re: and statement

Subbu wrote:
> Thank you so much. I looked up 'and' && operands in the PickAxe book
> and this is what it says:
> "The 'and' and && operators evaluate their first operand. If false,
> the expression returns the value of the first operand; otherwise, the
> expression returns the value of the second operand"
> 

Which doesn't appear to be true.   Look at this:

result = (x=20)
puts result          #20


result = true and x=20
puts result        #true


The output isn't the same.
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