From: Dave Bass <davebass@...>
Date: 2008-07-01T19:46:40+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby idiom a ||= b means?

Ratnavel P S wrote:
> What does the ruby idiom a ||= b mean?

It's commonly used to assign default values to things.
This idiom is also very common in Perl, which is presumably where it 
came from.
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