Range as conditional expr

[omirek10]

Hi,

I am reading "Programming Ruby" [a.k.a. Pickaxe]
and I found example

 

[Steve]

In the Second Edition of the Pickaxe, on page 68 it says:

In older versions of Ruby, bare ranges could be used as
conditions in if, while, and similar statements. You
could, for example, have written the previous code
fragment as

while gets
print if /start/../end/
end

This is no longer supported. Unfortunately, no error is
raised; the test will simply succeed each time.

Hope this answers your question.

Cheers

 

[Miroslaw Osys]

Thanks Steve. I need to obtain 2nd edition indeed.

Regards