From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-07-16T06:36:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Goody :)

gabriele renzi wrote:
> il Thu, 15 Jul 2004 03:03:24 +0900, Meino Christian Cramer
> <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> ha scritto::
> 
> ruby is simple. 
> Ok, we have lots of strange things like 1..n vs 1...n, 6 ways to
> insert a string in the code,and various ways to store a variable, but
> basically once you got objects, modules,Procs and exceptions you find
> (alamost) everything really simple and consistent.

1. Consistent variable assignment semantics.
  and
2. The only false values are false and nil.

Together, these make the ||= idiom useful.