From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-02T16:02:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [FAQ] [Revised] What do some of Ruby's symbols mean?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Weirich" <jweirich@one.net>


> On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 10:01, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> > Thanks for the instant feedback.  And apologies for the offensive
late-night
> > manager humour.  If only I'd limited it to my workplace... . [...]
> >
> > ?:
> >    Ternary decision operator, as in C.  For example:
> >      return (level == DEBUG) ? "" : detailed_info
>
> This still seems confusing, as I would expect detailed information to be
> returned in debug mode.
>

Whoops, my mistake.  It's a stupid example anyway.  Can anyone think of a
simple real-life example of using the ternary operator!?

Gavin