From: Paul Mckibbin <pmckibbin@...>
Date: 2011-02-11T00:46:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby ternary operator

Sam T. wrote in post #980819:
> If I do the following:
>
> value="off"
> p value == "on" ? "YES" : "NO"
> p value
>
> Then I get the
>>> "NO", "off"
>
> Does anyone know how I assign the result of the statement to a variable.
> e.g the result of:
>
> value="off"
> value == "on" ? "YES" : "NO"
>>> "NO"

do you really need the "YES" and "NO"?
Why not just assign the other_value to true or false?

i.e. other_value = (value=="on")

Then you are dealing with booleans which are less prone to error imho.

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