From: 7stud -- <dolgun@...>
Date: 2007-09-03T20:47:03+09:00
Subject: Re: assigning to hash keys when there is a default value?

unknown wrote:
> The only possible explanation I can come up with, which I don't like,
> is that:
> 
>    h[2] ||= 10
> 
> is being treated like:
> 
>    5 = 5 || 10
> 
> which is just another can of worms.
> 


I also considered that possibility.  Does the trace output support that? 
I don't really know how to read the trace output, but it doesn't look 
like there are two calls to Hash#[] for each ||=.
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