From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-05-03T03:14:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.9 wishlist

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Suraj Kurapati <snk@gna.org> wrote:

>  In fact, an if statement in Ruby is nothing more than shell-style
>  booleans:
>
>   if condition then main_stuff else other_stuff end
>
>   condition and main_stuff or other_stuff
>
>   condition && main_stuff || other_stuff
>

Not quite

val = if true
  false
else
  true
end

val # => false

val = true && false || true
val # => true

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