From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-02-20T02:18:33+09:00
Subject: Re: simple question re: ruby warning message

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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:19 AM, vimal <cool.vimalsmail@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  Your representation (db_type= 'n' ? db = @nodes_h : db = @links_h)
>
>  assigns db_type the result of the following:
>
>   checks a condition 'n'
>     if true
>       db = @nodes_h
>     else
>       db = @links_h
>     end
>

Which, since any ruby object except nil and false is truthy is effectively
the same thing as

  db_type = db = @nodes.h

which makes db_type, and db reference the same object, which is the return
valud of @nodes.h

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