From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-07-20T07:29:16+09:00
Subject: Re: removing array duplicates where a subset is unique

Hi --

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, 7stud -- wrote:

> David A. Black wrote:
>> I'm not sure what that buys you, though.
>
> Simplicity of comprehension over brevity.

I guess I like the ||= idiom because it has both. But the if statement
will definitely work, of course.


David

-- 
David A. Black / Ruby Power and Light, LLC
Ruby/Rails consulting & training: http://www.rubypal.com
Now available: The Well-Grounded Rubyist (http://manning.com/black2)
Training! Intro to Ruby, with Black & Kastner, September 14-17
(More info: http://rubyurl.com/vmzN)