From: Tassilo Horn <heimdall@...>
Date: 2006-10-18T05:20:18+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby way to say this?

matt@tidbits.com (matt neuburg) writes:

Hi Matt,

> meaning, if oneThing is nonzero, return oneThing, else return
> otherThing. Now, I don't want to evaluate oneThing twice, so I've
> ended up with this:
>
> (temp = oneThing()).nonzero? ? temp : otherThing()
>
> I don't like it. Is that culturally correct, or is there a ruby way to
> speak here, that I'm not thinking of?

What about this?

  one_thing.nonzero? || other_thing

Bye,
Tassilo
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