From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-10-31T06:12:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Array and ASCII Help needed...

On 10/30/07, 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" -

I did oversimplify this bit, I'll admit - to be precise, due to the
semantics of the || operator, if a is nil or false, it'll be set equal
to b.

martin