From: "Guy N. Hurst" <gnhurst@...>
Date: 2000-11-09T07:29:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6182] Re: Lazy operators

Aleksi Niemel� wrote:
> ...
> > if month > 2 && month < 7 || month == 11 then .....
> >
> > Why not: if month > 2 ^and^ < 7 ^or^ == 11 then .....
> 
> Oh, this must be your lucky day. I just noticed my version of Ruby (which
> has started to show some signs of hackery) include Lazy operators. :)
> 
> That means you can write the above code as
> 
>   if _(month, _ > 2, And < 7, Or == 11 )
> 
> Here you have too.
> 

Wow, I am delighted that you have met this challenge already :-)
(even though the underscores seem obscure)

Actually, I briefly considered redefining < and >, but dismissed
it thinking I couldn't... thought maybe it would be a parser job.

But it is neat to see something like this!  


Guy N. Hurst
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