From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-11-08T02:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a "||" that treats "" also as false?

On Nov 7, 10:36 am, Joshua Muheim <fo...@josh.ch> wrote:
> class String
>   def |(alternative)
>     (self.nil? or self == "") ? alternative : self
>   end
> end

An instance of a String class will never be an instance of NilClass
instead. You can remove "self.nil? or" from the above.