From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-10-09T11:54:44+09:00
Subject: Re: ARGV || something

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Bil Kleb wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I used to do this with VERSION < 1.8,
>
> components = ARGV || %w[ Adjoint Design FUN3D_90 GetGrad
>                          GridMove HRefine LibF90 Mixed Party
>                          PHYSICS_MODULES Rad ]
>
> It no longer works for VERSION == 1.8.2-p2.
>
> What's going on and what is the idiom now?
>
> I went through Why's 1.8 guide, but nothing slapped me.

i can't figure that it ever would have worked?

   jib:~ > /usr/bin/ruby -v
   ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i386-linux-gnu]

   jib:~ > /usr/bin/ruby -e'p(ARGV || 42)'
   []

   jib:~ > /usr/bin/ruby -e'p(ARGV || 42)' 42
   ["42"]

   jib:~ > /usr/bin/ruby -e'p(ARGV)'
   []

even in 1.6.8 ARGV is an Array, and so always true?  you have code that gives
default arguments like this?

regards

-a
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