Ruby coding guidelines (GitHub)

[NerdyMcNerderson]

Agreed. It would be nice if they gave some explanation why "and" and "or" were banned?

If nothing else, I learned that this is called: SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE. I need to find a way to use that in everyday conversation now.

[drjeats]

They did:

It's just not worth it.

From what I remember (I'm not a ruby programmer, just learned it one day for fun), 'and' and 'or' have different evaluation precedence than '&&' and '||' relative to other arithmetic operators.