From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-04-16T19:52:43+09:00
Subject: Re: returning value from ternary operator

2009/4/16 Sijo Kg <sijo@maxxion.com>:
> Hi
>     I have
>
>    def get_company_details_array
>    c = nil
>    arr = [] if c.nil?
>    c.nil? ?  2.times {arr.push("")} :['a','b']
>  end

What weird logic is that? Basically you can replace the method with

def get_company_details_array
  ['','']
end

>  arr = ['abc'] + get_company_details_array
>  puts arr.inspect
>
>   What I expected here is ["abc","",""]   But I am getting error
> array.rb:7:in `+': can't convert Fixnum into Array (TypeError)
>        from array.rb:7
>
>         Could anybody please correct the code?

Hint: Fixnum#times returns the number.

Cheers

robert

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