From: Joe Ruby MUDCRAP-CE <joeat303@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T17:19:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting (var = false) to return true?

Farrel Lifson wrote:
> On 27/10/06, Joe Ruby MUDCRAP-CE <joeat303@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> false causes problems with it too). I know I can just simply do this:
>>
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> 
>  def before_update
>    @var = get_old_var_value || true
>  end
> 
> This returns get_old_var_value if it's not false (or nil) or true
> otherwise. Is that what you need?
> 
> Farrel

Nah, I need the value returned from the function to always be true. Hmm, 
maybe this will work:

def before_update
  (@var = get_old_var_value) || true
end

Joe

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