From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2008-03-10T20:02:14+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question

Farrel Lifson wrote:
> On 10/03/2008, Frantisek Psotka <frantisek.psotka@matfyz.cz> wrote:

> >  a = b if b
>
> a ||= b

Nope.
a ||= b  is equivalent to  a = a || b  is equivalent to
a = if a then a else b end  is NOT equivalent to  a = b if b


HTH,
Sebastian
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