From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-03-30T21:35:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Boolean Operators

On 30.03.2008 14:16, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On 3/29/08, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I use "and" and "or" rather seldom mostly when chaining commands
>>  as in
>>
>>  foo = doit() and puts foo
> 
> Keeping in mind that using && instead of and here has quite a
> different result, even after adjusting the syntax of the puts call:

Which is the precise reason why I would use "and" in this case.  Note 
that I wrote "seldom" so this is not a too frequent idiom I employ.

> rather than splitting it into two lines, perhaps replacing the and
> with a semi-colon or otherwise steppng back and micro-refactoring the
> code to make it clearer.
> 
> But I could be wrong.

I don't think so.  This is also a question of personal style and I don't 
find anything wrong with your approach.

Kind regards

	robert