From: Alexey Verkhovsky <alexey.verkhovsky@...>
Date: 2007-03-12T13:17:06+09:00
Subject: Re: #define alternative for Ruby

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On 3/11/07, Alexey Verkhovsky <alexey.verkhovsky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/11/07, Michael Strelnikov <michaelst@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Let's we have following function:
> > * set_default(var, val)
> > -- if variable "var" is not defined (not existed) then assign value
> > "val"
> > else do nothing.
> >
> > The variable could be ANY type including "Fixnum".
> >
> > Try to implement it using standard techniques.
> >
>
> var ||= val
>


Although this will only work with @var

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