From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T11:40:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Shortest if Assignment Statement

David A. Black wrote:

>Hi --
>
>On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Zach Dennis wrote:
>
>  
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>>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?
>
>  
>
hsh = { '*' => '(*)' , 'a' => '(1){2}' }
val = "b"
a = hsh[ val ] or hsh['*']  #to give me, a = '(*)'
puts a
val = "a"
a = hsh[ val ] or hsh['*'] #to give me, a = '(1){2}'
puts a

I want the fourth line to output (*) instead it gives me nil.

Zach