From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-04-05T04:51:54+09:00
Subject: Re: The ||= assignment operator

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Belorion <belorion@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks all, that clears up my understanding.  I hadn't thought of it as x =
>  x || "ruby" (even thoughI knew that x += 1 is the same as x = x + 1) and
>  that in that expanded case, x evaluates, logistically, to false if nil or
>  false.

For conditional expressions.  Here's something that may catch you off guard...

irb(main):001:0> nil || false
=> false
irb(main):001:0> false || nil
=> nil

Todd