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Is there any wisdom behind “and”, “or” operators in Ruby?
Ruby logical operators

Looking for an explanation of Ruby’s and operator, contrasted with the && operator. I get from this post that there’s a precedence difference, but the author simply recommends against using and, rather than revealing what meaningful purpose it might serve in the language.

Additionally, what’s the practical reason for using one over the other?

Answer 1

and is ultra-low-precedence, like in Perl. Many Ruby programmers seem to advocate against and, but I think it’s to be preferred over && in most cases — but do understand the difference in precedence!