From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-10T10:57:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.4 behaviour - 2 questions

Dňa Štvrtok 09 Február 2006 17:51 ara.t.howard@noaa.gov napísal:
> > target_f += { source_f ? source_f : 0.00 }
>
>    target_f += source_f.to_f
>

I'd have used:

	target_f += source_f || 0.0

myself, but after hacking at irb a bit, ara's method seems somewhat sexier 
than that rather standard Ruby idiom. A nice perk is that it won't bug out on 
when the database returns the data as a String.

David Vallner