From: Eleanor McHugh Date: 2007-04-14T01:11:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Idiom wanted (now hiring!) On 13 Apr 2007, at 14:37, Robert Dober wrote: > On 4/13/07, Eleanor McHugh wrote: >> On 13 Apr 2007, at 13:29, Robert Dober wrote: >> > a = x if x >> > is kind of *not* >> > a ||=x >> >> I suspect we've all made that mistake at one time or another ;) > Really nice of you to say so, but to be honest, 99.99999% of the > people having made that mistake wisely refused to send it to the ML ;) I know. I was one of them >;o Ellie Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains ---- raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason