From: Paul Brannan Date: 2002-08-10T01:50:51+09:00 Subject: nil || // Why does this not work in Ruby 1.6: [pbrannan@zaphod scripts]$ ruby -v -e 'p nil || //' ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-linux] nil [pbrannan@zaphod scripts]$ ruby-1.7 -v -e 'p nil || //' ruby 1.7.2 (2002-07-13) [i686-linux] // Paul