From: Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...>
Date: 2008-03-04T23:24:55+09:00
Subject: Re: and statement

7stud -- wrote:
> 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

Precedence...

result = (true and x = 20)