From: Lars <larsch@...>
Date: 2008-03-10T20:11:10+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question

On Mar 10, 11:50 am, Farrel Lifson <farrel.lif...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/03/2008, Frantisek Psotka <frantisek.pso...@matfyz.cz> wrote:
>
> > is in ruby operator for:
>
> >  a = b if b
>
> >  a (operator) b
>
> a ||= b

"a ||= b" means "a = b unless a".

I don't think there is an operator for "a = b if b".

Luckily, "a = b if b" is valid ruby code. "a = b || a" or "a = (b or
a)" would also work.