From: "Radosław Bułat" <radek.bulat@...>
Date: 2008-03-11T00:04:53+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Frantisek Psotka
<frantisek.psotka@matfyz.cz> wrote:
> yes, i can write
>
>  a = b || a
>
>  but isn't it more complex. imagine that b is nil. then a = a will be
>  evaluated?
>
>  maybe time for feature request? new operator a =|| (a = b if b)
>
>  (variable = params[:nice_symbol] if params[:nice_symbol] doesnt look
>  very nice)

And after x years later we would have another Perl. I don't like to
have gazillions operators for all occasions.
a = b if b is that hard to write and read? I don't think so :).
Direction for Ruby future should be to clean those ugly perlism from
Ruby (for example magic variable $_), rather that to add new stuff
like that.

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