From: Mike Cargal <mike@...>
Date: 2008-06-13T07:05:42+09:00
Subject: Re: ||=

careful..

this is really...

if not a
   a = b
end

(it will assign b if a resolves to false as a boolean (i.e. either nil  
or false)


On Jun 12, 2008, at 1:57 AM, Damjan Rems wrote:

> Justin To wrote:
>> what does ||= do?
>
> In other languages you would code this something like:
>
> if a == nil
>  a = b
> end
>
>
> by
> TheR
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