From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-09-29T13:30:57+09:00
Subject: Re: DRY ruby idiom

Steve Tuckner wrote:
> a = "default"
> a = foo.value if foo.value
>
> I just wanted to see if there was a simple way to avoid the double
> foo.value that I was missing. Thanks for all your responses.

Ah, well _that's_ easy:

  a = foo.value || "default"

Gavin