From: Alexandru Popescu <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@...>
Date: 2007-01-13T05:00:10+09:00
Subject: Re: What does this mean? ||=

var ||= value is

var = var || value

./alex
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On 1/12/07, Justin Ko <jko170@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at this method and don't understand what ||= means:
>
> def current_account
>     @account ||= Account.find(session[:account_id])
>  end
>
> I have the ruby for rails book and can't find anything on it.
>
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