From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-07-30T03:30:13+09:00
Subject: Re: What does this assignment operator |=

On 7/29/05, Stefan Achatz <erazor@mitochondrien.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> i think i once saw an assignment operator |= used in a ruby program.
> I can't find anything in the pickaxe-book and on google.
> What does it do?
> Thanks, Stefan

It does the same as foo = foo | bar, where | is the bitwise operator.

It's more common to see foo ||= bar, which is foo = foo || bar.

-austin
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