From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-11-07T13:19:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6099] Re: detect:ifNone: in Ruby


In message "[ruby-talk:6096] Re: detect:ifNone: in Ruby"
    on 00/11/07, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|I guess that if the block form isn't important we _could_ just use
|'or'...
|
|        x = (a.detect {|i| i == 2} or 99)
|
|(btw. This is an interesting case where the precedence rules just
|can't win... ;-)

Try

        x = a.detect {|i| i == 2} || 99

but I admit it's more cryptic (closer to Perl ;-)

							matz.