From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2008-04-01T15:28:49+09:00
Subject: Re: assignment if key_exist? in Hash

darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the Julian Leviston:
>> What he's saying is if you want to retain the value of "false" or
>> "nil", that won't work too well
> 
> Ahh, OK.
> 
> Not a prob. In my use case the hash key will be set to a string or it will not 
> exist.

You could also use
   foo = hash.fetch("some_key", foo)

--
Daniel