From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-11-24T03:54:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyish inst.var initializations

Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 10:04 +0900, Victor "Zverok" Shepelev wrote:
...
>> Then I note (through profiler) various push_XXX spend too much time in
>> checking is @XXX_list initialized. Then I change it:
...

Sounds like Victor was interested in avoiding the ||= in each access. 
The following still does that check, though it is nice clean code, and 
preferable unless profiling shows it to be a bottleneck:

>   class MyClass
>     def something_list
>       @something_list ||= []
>     end
>   
>     def push_something(obj)
>       something_list << obj
>     end
>   end


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