From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-02-20T11:57:41+09:00
Subject: Re: If statement and if modifier not equivalent?

On 2/19/06, Garance A Drosehn <drosihn@gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you really want 'if a = 1' there, and not 'if a == 1'?

yes. I imagine so.

in a more complicated example

if ( a = get_something_that_might_be_nil_or_false )
  puts a
end