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Ruby Ruby Booleans Ruby Booleans Precedence

Posted by Ross Peace
Ross Peace
Courses Plus Student 17,401 Points

The different boolean values, true, false, and nil, have different precedence in a program. The same is true with differ

Hi,

Could you explain about the following sentences?

"The different boolean values, true, false, and nil, have different precedence in a program. The same is true with different operators like the and and or operators."

In my thought, operator has precedence. But how the values(true, false) can have precedence?

Thanks, Ross

2 Answers

rowend rowend
rowend rowend
2,926 Points
rowend rowend
rowend rowend
2,926 Points

I think the same, who has precedence are the operators.

Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points
Andrew Stelmach
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 Points

I think Jason explains it well in the video - I don't think I can do a better job than that!