Re: elsunless: Compiles but does not run. Standard?
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Fred Talpiot <fredistic@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> unless true
> puts "wrong wrong"
> elsunless false
> puts 'weird, but logical'
> elsunless true
> puts 'truly strange'
> else
> puts 'weirder yet' # This is what pops out!
> end
>
Ruby is an interpreted language, so it ignores your "unless true" part
and doesn't parse what's after it until the "else". Your code should
look like that:
unless true
puts "wrong wrong"
elsunless false
puts 'weird, but logical'
elsunless true
puts 'truly strange'
else
puts 'weirder yet' # This is what pops out!
end
Nobu is right. Try "unless false" instead of "unless true" and you'll
get a NameError
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