From: mortee <mortee.lists@...>
Date: 2007-10-12T02:02:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Using strings to drill down into objects

Brian Adkins wrote:
> Are you sure about that?
> 
> brian@imagine:~$ irb
> irb(main):001:0> x ||= 7
> => 7
> irb(main):002:0> x
> => 7

Sorry, you're right. I've never tried this actually on an undefined
local variable - and I guessed it would first try to evaluate x, which
would raise an exception. Thanks for pointing that out, I'm happy to
have learnt it (:

mortee