From: 7stud -- Date: 2009-08-27T09:07:19+09:00 Subject: Re: ||= with 1.8 and 1.9 ? I've never understood ||=. As a result, I would never use it in my code. As far as I'm concerned, I can explicitly write what I want rather than trust some unpredictable, quirky short hand operator. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.