From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-10-31T06:05:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Array and ASCII Help needed...

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:58:32 +0900, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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']

Actually, yes.  They give the same results.  Try it yourself...

-mental