i = true and false in Ruby is true?

Question

Am I fundamentally misunderstanding Ruby here? I\'ve been writing Ruby code for about 2 years now and just today stumbled on this...

ruby-1.8.7-p249 > i =         


        

Answer 1

Your line is parsed as

i = true and false
(i = true) and false
true and false

And of course because of i = true, i will be true afterwards.