From: Eric Promislow Date: 2007-09-04T07:25:04+09:00 Subject: Re: assigning to hash keys when there is a default value? I always wondered why JavaScript is missing the '||=' operator (I rarely need a "&&=" one). Maybe Brendan was prescient enough to realize an r-value interpretation would lead to ambiguity. Maybe, but I still say it's a bug. +1 for DavidB. - Eric