From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T04:53:51+09:00
Subject: Re: '=||'

On 5 May 2009, at 20:51, James Byrne wrote:
> Can someone point out to me where exactly in the API I find a  
> discussion
> of the '=||' operator?  Or am I imagining things and this does not
> really exist?


Are you referring to ||= ? If so it's one of the augmented assignment  
operators so you won't find it documented separately as it's syntactic  
sugar for:

x = x || some_other_value


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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