The flip-flop operator is a hotly contested feature of Ruby. It's still struggling to find an idiomatic use case, except for a few very rarely needed things. It's not something you'll likely reach for on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis. The only thing you really need to know about it is what it does, and that's only in case you encounter it in someone else's code. Many even go as far to say not to use the flip-flop operator, that it only adds confusion.

My brain just melted.

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