From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-09-04T06:47:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible to make compound if statements...

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 12:42:48AM +0900, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> The spelled-out 'and' and 'or' have appeared in many languages, but I
> suspect their precise behavior with regard to precedence (of each other
> and of the punctuational versions) was borrowed from Perl.

I don't know if it is this way in Perl too, but I believe matz said once
that 'and' and 'or' had the same precedence in Ruby *because* they have
the same precedence in English.


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