From: Jeff <cohen.jeff@...>
Date: 2007-04-24T12:37:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange syntax sugar

On Apr 23, 7:40 pm, aalfred <alfred.anzlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've recently had to deal with lots of assignments, where most of them
> looked
> like those two lines:
>
>   foo = bar if !bar.nil?                 # (case 1)  or
>   foo = bar if foo.nil? && !bar.nil?     # (case 2)
>
> (I know it could be written using 'unless', but I strongly dislike
> 'unless')
>

I think you won't need your new sugar if you just rewrite the
originals:

foo = bar if bar  # case 1
foo ||= bar if bar # case 2

That's the simplest and cleanest, I think.

Jeff
softiesonrails.com