From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2007-04-14T22:19:28+09:00 Subject: Re: Idiom wanted (now hiring!) "Robert Dober" writes: > On 4/13/07, Nobuyoshi Nakada 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 ? It's very philosophical: $ ruby -e 'thing = thing; p thing' nil > Cheers > Robert -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org