From: james@...
Date: 2002-04-13T04:23:30+09:00
Subject: RE: not vs !, and vs &&



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Chittenden [mailto:sean@chittenden.org]
> 
> > I'm confused about the behavior of 'not'.  The Pickaxe and
> > Ruby21Days books suggests that 'not' is just another form of '!',
> > yet, while this works:
> > 
> >    puts ! true    # prints false
> > 
> > this breaks:
> > 
> >    puts not true   # parse error
> 
> puts (!true)
> puts (not true)

The second one raises a parse error.  But this works:

puts "#{not true}"



Odd.


James