From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-11-01T02:14:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Array and ASCII Help needed...

On 10/30/07, Peņa, Botp <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrote:
>
> i think 7stud meant this,
>
> ~> h=Hash.new("hi")
> => {}
>
> ~> h
> => {}
>
> ~> h['a']=h['a'] || 10
> => "hi"
>
> ~> h
> => {"a"=>"hi"}
>
> ~> h['b'] ||= 10
> => "hi"
>
> ~> h
> => {"a"=>"hi"}

Oh, good point. I want to call that a bug, but I can't quite put my
finger on where the exact problem is - something about [] not
returning a proper lvalue, or foo = foo not being a no-op.

martin