From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2007-08-29T08:53:19+09:00
Subject: Re: idiomatic way to assign if not nil?

On 8/28/07, Douglas F Shearer <dougal.s@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jay
>
> On 29 Aug 2007, at 00:30, Jay Levitt wrote:
>
> > a = b if b
> >
> > Does that exist in a DRYer form?
>
> Best I could come up with just now was:
>
> a = b || a
   a = b if b
Not really DRYer :), you just repeat a instead of b :)