From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-02-23T12:07:47+09:00
Subject: Re: setting nil to zero


On Feb 22, 2006, at 9:38 PM, Pe�a, Botp wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is there a setting to set nil to zero? something like $NIL=0, then  
> set it back again to $NIL=nil...
>
> reason is i have quite a number of codes like ff
>
> s.each do |w|
>   f[w] = 0 unless f[w] #i want to kill this lne since it does not  
> jive with my pseudocode
>   f[w] += 1
> end
>
> thanks and kind regards -botp
>

s.each do |w|
    f[w] = f[w].to_i + 1 # Or if f[w] can be a float, f[w].to_f
end