From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2009-12-31T12:36:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Why can't I use "or" here?

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why? I thought the only diference between "or" and "||" is the
> precedence.

yes, so you can do eg

>> system "pwd" or raise "no command here"
/home/botp
=> true

>> system "asdf" or raise "no command here"
RuntimeError: no command here

if you know perl, this is no surprise..

as always, there are many ways in ruby, you can use || or the double
parens override.

happy holiday and best regards
-botp