From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-12-29T03:51:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Defining/Deleting variables


"Austin Ziegler" <austin@halostatue.ca> wrote in message
> You can do this with:
>
>   @name = (defined? name and name) or "unknown"
>

"or" has very low precedence, this would be better:

 @name =  ((defined? name and name) or "unknown")