From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T21:05:59+09:00
Subject: Re: '=||'

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Eleanor McHugh
<eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
> On 6 May 2009, at 02:31, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Eleanor McHugh
>> <eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
>>>
>
> Notice how even though method_missing returns a value and is thus 'true' the
> sequence still attempts all parts of the expression, and

I should have mentioned in my reply that since your method missing
body consists of a single puts statement, and since puts returns nil,
that value is non-truthy

and

nil || x

is x which is why the []= gets sent in your example.

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