From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2007-10-31T05:58:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Array and ASCII Help needed...

Martin DeMello wrote:
> 
> a ||= b is a common ruby idiom for "set a to b only if it isn't
> already defined" - 
>
> it expands to a = a || b.

Nope.  What do you think the following will output:

h = Hash.new('hi')

h['a'] = h['a'] || 10
puts h['a']


Now, how about the following?  The same output as above?

h['a'] ||= 10
puts h['a']

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