From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2006-01-29T06:57:54+09:00
Subject: Re: nil != []

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 06:39 +0900, Alex Polite wrote:
> Well I do understand that it's a convention. They same is true for a
> lot of things. Like the positioning of gas and break pedals in cars.
> It's just a convention. But when GM puts a new car in the market they
> don't swap them. My question is why the constructors of Ruby did?
> alex

Among other things, it makes things like ||= much more useful.

-mental