From: Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@...>
Date: 2008-12-04T16:58:52+09:00
Subject: Re: 'and' keyword?

List Rb wrote:
> Because puts("hi") yields nil, the second item never gets called:
>     puts "hi" and puts "bye" if true
> 
> I can work around it with these:
>          !puts "hi" and puts "bye" if true
>          puts "hi";puts "bye" if true
>          [puts("hi"), puts("bye")] if true
> 
> --But was hoping there was a more aesthetic one liner out there that can 
> use
> 'and'..
> 
> Thanks in advance!!

In my opinion, using logical operators with side-effects is bad style. 
I'd try to avoid it.

Regards
Stefan
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