From: jbw <jbw@...>
Date: 2010-03-31T10:05:29+09:00
Subject: Re: why getting error for this code fragment

Are you trying to use unary if operations? If so you need to add ':'
like so (runtime==nil ? 'nil' : :runtime)

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Amishera Amishera
<amishera2007@gmail.com> wrote:
>  5 class Movie_Info
>  6         attr_accessor :runtime, :language, :sound, :color
>  7         def to_str
>  38                 puts
> (runtime==nil?'nil':runtime)+'&&&'+(language==nil?'nil':language)+'&&&'+(color==nil?'nil':color)+'&&&'+(sound==nil?'nil':sound)
>  39                 return str
>  40         end
>  41 end
>
> the statement at line 38 causes some error.
>
> ./util.rb:38: syntax error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG, expecting kDO or '{'
> or '(' (SyntaxError)
>                puts
> (runtime==nil?'nil':runtime)+'&&&'+(language==nil?'nil':language)+'&&&'+(color==nil?'nil':color)+'&&&'+(sound==nil?'nil':sound)
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