[#6363] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior — ts <decoux@...>

>>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

17 messages 2000/11/14
[#6367] Re: rescue clause affecting IO loop behavior — David Alan Black <dblack@...> 2000/11/14

Hello again --

[#6582] best way to interleaf arrays? — David Alan Black <dblack@...>

Hello --

15 messages 2000/11/26

[#6646] RE: Array Intersect (&) question — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

Ross asked something about widely known and largely ignored language (on

23 messages 2000/11/29
[#6652] RE: Array Intersect (&) question — rpmohn@... (Ross Mohn) 2000/11/29

aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com (Aleksi Niemel) wrote in

[#6723] Re: Array Intersect (&) question — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2000/12/01

> >Use a hash. Here's code to do both and more. It assumes that

[#6656] printing/accessing arrays and hashes — raja@... (Raja S.)

I'm coming to Ruby with a Python & Common Lisp background.

24 messages 2000/11/30

[ruby-talk:6147] Re: detect:ifNone: in Ruby

From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2000-11-08 00:13:50 UTC
List: ruby-talk #6147
Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> ...
> > Ah, could you tell me about your short-curcuit operator idea again?
> > I'm too easy to forget.
> 
> It was to do with sort! producing nil so that chains of methods "break"
> 
> myarray.sort!.uniq!.print
> 
> could raise an exception, but
> 
> myarray.sort!.cut.uniq!.cut.print
> 
> meant:
> myarray.sort! If the result is nil then do mo more of this statement
> otherwise myarray.uniq! and if the result is nil do no more of the
> statement otherwise myarray.print.
> 

What about this alternative:

myarray.sort! ? (myarray.uniq! ? myarray.print : nil) : nil


Guy N. Hurst

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