title: Ruby: Multi-line conditional syntax: how do I do it?
body: <p>What I'm trying to do:</p>
  
  <pre><code>result = (not question?) \
            and ( \
              condition \
              or ( \
                comparer == compared and another_question? \ 
              ) \
            )   
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The goal is to have complicated and / or logic and still have it be readable.</p>
  
  <p>The problem with the above attempted syntax is that it some how messes up parenthesis in ruby's parser, so console says that the error is in a file that this code isn't in. (though it's in the call stack)</p>
  
  <p>without the back slashes, I get these:</p>
  
  <pre><code>syntax error, unexpected kAND, expecting kEND (SyntaxError)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <pre><code> syntax error, unexpected kOR, expecting ')'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>any ideas on how to properly do this?</p>