From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T11:23:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Shortest if Assignment Statement

Hi --

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Zach Dennis wrote:

> 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}'

I'm not quite following.  What's not working as you'd like exactly?


David

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David A. Black
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