I agree that it's ugly, but also in some languages you can get into trouble because of operator precedence. This is why ruby and perl have the operators `or` an

I agree that it's ugly, but also in some languages you can get into trouble because of operator precedence. This is why ruby and perl have the operators `or` and `and` as well as || and &&. http://devblog.avdi.org/2010/08/02/using-and-and-or-in-ruby/ http://devblog.avdi.org/2010/08/02/using-and-and-or-in-ruby/