From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-10-30T15:38:31+09:00
Subject: Re: "multiple assignment in conditional"

Hello Gavin,

Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 9:29:35 AM, you wrote:

GS>   a, b = foo; puts a

GS> It's really a matter of style.  The actual line of code is like this:

GS>   results, duplicates = @scraper.get_backend_ids(last_record) and
GS>     LOG.info "Retrieved backend IDs: #{results.length} of them"

imvho, it's better to omit "and" because in ruby "and" is logical
operator and anyone else can't understand your code. i personally will
spend much time finding condition when first line will be "false" :)


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