From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-12-24T04:04:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with a ruby idiom

Hi --

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Devin Mullins wrote:

> dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
>> It is indeed functionally equivalent to those, though all of them
>> would blow up :-)
> Not all of them.
>  a = b unless a
> works, for the same reason you described
>  a = a || b
> working. Here, the "a =" is parsed before the "unless a" is evaluated.

Whoops, right; thanks.


David

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