From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T11:26:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Shortest if Assignment Statement



> 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}'

Not a generic answer, but in this case why don't you use Hash#default ?