From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T11:12:17+09:00
Subject: Shortest if Assignment Statement

I am playing with different assignment statements and I am using the 
normal cross-language terinary operator

 a = a==1 ? a : -1

Is there a shorter way to cheat this? I am dealing with a Hash and I 
would like to perhaps do something like:

hsh = { '*' => '(*)' , 'a' => '(1){2}' }
val = "b"
a = hsh[ val ] or hsh['*']  #to give me, a = '(*)'
val = "a"
a = hsh[ val ] or hsh['*'] #to give me, a = '(1){2}'

Thanks,

Zach