From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-04-13T20:06:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiom wanted (now hiring!)

On 4/13/07, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>
Thx Nobu, that is as a matter of fact a "logical" and "functional"
explanation, but my question was rather conceptional.
Do make it clear I will be a little bit blunt, forgive me.
I do not like that behavior!
And you ?
Cheers
Robert

-- 
You see things; and you say Why?
But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
-- George Bernard Shaw