From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2011-07-23T09:13:28+09:00
Subject: Re: using "puts" in ternary operator

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Jesse Breuer <jesse.breuer@gmail.com> wrote:

> SyntaxError: (irb):3: syntax error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG, expecting
> keyword_do or '{' or '('
> x == 2 ? puts "two" : puts "one"
>               ^
> (irb):3: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting $end
> x == 2 ? puts "two" : puts "one"

I think the lack of parens creates an ambiguous scope for the
argument to the initial `puts` whereas your next form doesn't.

> x == 2 ? puts("two") : puts("one")

Regardless you could DRY it up (without even parens) as

puts x == 2 ? "two" : "one"

FWIW,
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