From: "Aníbal Rojas" <anibalrojas@...>
Date: 2010-03-20T21:41:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about the evaluation of x = 'foo' if false


Thanks for your responses!

--
Aníbal

On Mar 18, 2:44 pm, Mark Thomas <m...@thomaszone.com> wrote:
> On Mar 17, 12:01 pm, Aníbal Rojas <anibalro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> >    I am kind of lost with thenilresult while I am expecting a false:
>
> > irb(main):001:0>  x = 'foo'iffalse
> > =>nil
> > irb(main):002:0> x
> > =>nil
> > irb(main):003:0>  x = 'foo'iftrue
> > => "foo"
> > irb(main):004:0> x
> > => "foo"
>
> >    Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge,
>
> Another way to think about it is that the above constructs are
> alternate ways of expressing the following:
>
> iffalse then x = 'foo' endiftrue then x = 'foo' end
>
> -- Mark.