From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-10-15T02:38:17+09:00
Subject: Re: & operation and if statment

It is Item 12 in "Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should
Know" (http://www.glue.umd.edu/~billtj/ruby.html)   :)

Regards,

Bill
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dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Robert McGovern wrote:

>> I'm puzzled by the behaviour in the following run. I would expect line 2
>> to not print out "ouch" because the result of the if statement is 0
>> (verified online 8)
>> $ irb
>> irb(main):001:0> data = 0x00
>> 0
>> irb(main):002:0> puts "ouch" if (data & 0x80)
>> ouch

> Don't forget that 0 is true.