From: Nobuyoshi Nakada Date: 2007-04-13T18:22:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Idiom wanted (now hiring!) Hi, At Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:57:47 +0900, Robert Dober wrote in [ruby-talk:247783]: > > a = func(b) || a > and if a did not exist before? a does exist at the assignment and initialized as nil. -- Nobu Nakada