From: Thomas Wieczorek Date: 2008-03-10T20:03:11+09:00 Subject: Re: newbie question On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Farrel Lifson wrote: > > a ||= b > That's not right. It will give you a NameError, that b is undefined. a ||= b is equivalent to a = a || b which is the same as a = b if not a > > a = b if b > I know of no operator for it yet.