From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-03-15T01:02:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Why doesn't "puts(4 or 5)" work?

Jan E. wrote in post #1051457:
> The difference is that "or" is a keyword rather than an operator. It
> seems the Ruby parser doesn't allow it in some contexts. For example,
> you cannot write
>
> [4 or 5]
> {:x => 4 or 5}
>
> But "puts (4 or 5)" works as expected.

That's probably parsed the same way as

puts((4 or 5))

> Anyway, I think the logical keywords aren't actually meant to be used
> outside of boolean expressions. If we want to do tricks, we're probably
> supposed to use the operators.
>
> That's why there's an "||=" operator but no "or=". ;-)

:-)

Cheers

robert

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