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authorven <vendethiel@hotmail.fr>2015-06-16 21:58:08 +0200
committerven <vendethiel@hotmail.fr>2015-06-16 21:58:08 +0200
commitce9a5af88b75c0308d4951e57eac78f4658598ed (patch)
treefb18c44e2692e397e7937c96c65079b40b7ee79b /ruby.html.markdown
parente31b9e90c9bddda007f7b9a30aab0263443e9212 (diff)
parenta6af51e42f6eef190fe8bdc602a7c07f040d4f5e (diff)
Merge pull request #1145 from geoffliu/master
[Ruby/en] Fix explanation of "and" and "or"
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@@ -79,10 +79,14 @@ true && false #=> false
true || false #=> true
!true #=> false
-# Alternate spellings of logical operators
-true and false #=> false
-true or false #=> true
-not true #=> false
+# There are alternate versions of the logical operators with much lower
+# precedence. These are meant to be used as flow-control constructs to chain
+# statements together until one of them returns true or false.
+
+# `do_something_else` only called if `do_something` succeeds.
+do_something() and do_something_else()
+# `log_error` only called if `do_something` fails.
+do_something() or log_error()
# Strings are objects