From: Joey Gibson <joey@...>
Date: 2003-09-03T21:06:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible to make compound if statements...

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:54:45 +0900, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>
wrote:

||| History lesson: 'and' and 'or' and 'not' are used in
||| languages like BASIC, Algol, and Pascal. && and || and !
||| are used in languages like C, C++, and Java. Ruby happens
||| to know both forms.

Also 'and' and 'or' have "extremely low precedence" (according to Ruby in a
Nutshell) so constructs using them _may_ behave differently than those
using && and || and my need parentheses to clear up ambiguities. I don't
have any good examples, but I'm sure someone does.

Joey


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