From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-10-11T23:56:56+09:00
Subject: Different Behavior of Class Variables w.r.t ||=

Hi,

This is very interesting.  Should Ruby be more consistent in this respect?

Regards,

Bill
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dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, William Djaja Tjokroaminata wrote:
>> It seems that the ||= operator works for local, instance, and class
>> variables.

> Yes, if the class var is already initialized.  However (1.6.7):

>   candle:~$ ruby -ve 'a ||= 3; @a ||= 3; @@a ||= 3'
>   ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-linux]
>   -e:1: uninitialized class variable @@a in Object (NameError)