From: Thomas Wieczorek <wieczo.yo@...>
Date: 2007-11-06T21:48:57+09:00
Subject: Re: operator |=

2007/11/6, Fernando Cacciola <fernando.cacciola@gmail.com>:
> Hi people,
>
> Did I dream about an opeartor |=?
>

It exists :)

>
> What does it do?
>

It works for integers like the binary OR:
foo = 3 | 4 # result: 7
bar = 3
bar |= 4 # result: 7

Did you mean ||=? It is used to set default values if a variable is
not definied yet.
foo = 3
foo ||= 4 # foo doesn't change
baz ||= 4 # baz is 4 if it wasn't defined before

Regards, Thomas