From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2007-09-02T20:40:08+09:00
Subject: Re: idiomatic way to assign if not nil?

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:40:39 -0700, aalfred wrote:

> I had those two cases:
> 
>   foo = bar if !bar.nil?                 # (case 1)  or
>   foo = bar if foo.nil? && !bar.nil?     # (case 2)
> 
> and rewrote them into:
> 
>   foo ??= bar       # case 1
>   foo !!= bar       # case 2

Neat - you did that with superators?  Or some other way?

Jay