From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-01-18T09:31:27+09:00
Subject: Re: long expression syntax

On Sunday, January 18, 2004, 10:59:05 AM, Jamis wrote:

> messju mohr wrote:

>>
>>i also get one if i run
>>puts 1 if ( a == b
>>    or a == c )
>>
>>maybe just because "or" is an operator and "a" isn't. i avoid newlines
>>inside ruby-statements because i don't know the rules i have to
>>obey. where are they stated?
>>  
>>

> I don't know where they are authoritatively stated, except in the Ruby
> source code. ;) "or" is, indeed, an operator.  So are '==', '+', 'and',
> '&&', 'not', '!', '=~', and so forth.

== and + (among others) are methods, not operators.

Gavin