From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-09-03T22:37:56+09:00
Subject: Re: assigning to hash keys when there is a default value?

Hi --

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Russell Norris wrote:

> I learned that x ||= y means set x to y unless x, so I don't see the
> bug. and i don't see this as being at all unpredictable. either way
> you expect it to work, it either fails 100% or succeeds 100%. :) the
> only problem is when you expect it to do something it doesn't do,
> which is tautologically what every problem is i guess.

I guess one can just accomodate oneself to whatever happens, in which
case there are no bugs... but somehow it never seems to play out that
way :-) Anyway, we're going around in circles. I think I might hop
over to ruby-core and see what people think.


David

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