From: Jim Haungs <jhaungs@...>
Date: 2010-09-29T05:33:10+09:00
Subject: Re: puts and return

Yep. This is pretty much where I went with it, too.  Pragmatic trumps
terse.

Now I'm going to go look for 'and's in my code. :-)

Rick Denatale wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Kirk Haines <wyhaines@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> && is what you want, to get that effect.
> 
> No that doesn't work, since puts returns nil and nil || whatever
> doesn't evaluate whatever.
> 
> And
> 
> puts "Too big" || break if i > 5
> 
> Doesn't cause the break.
> 
> I think this is because break really isn't an expression.
> 
> The best solution seems to be
> 
> if i > 5
>   puts "Too big"
>   break
> end
> 
> Both because it works, and I don't put too much weight on marginally
> shorter code.
> 
> 
> --
> Rick DeNatale

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