From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-11-03T10:49:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24242] Re: Possible bug in ||= assignment

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:24209] Possible bug in ||= assignment"
    on 01/11/03, Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de> writes:

|Try the following:
|
|  false ||= anObject
|  true  ||= anObject
|  nil   ||= anObject
|
|=> Segmentation fault

They are bugs.

|  5        ||= anObject
|  1.2      ||= anObject 
|  "string" ||= anObject
|  [1,2]    ||= anObject
|
|=> parse error

They are errors.  They are not assignable.
							matz.