From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T22:47:27+09:00
Subject: Re: '=||'

On 6 May 2009, at 13:05, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps I should have paid more attention to my morning email spam  
regarding 'retrograde mercury'...


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason