DABlog

There was a response to my post from yesterday on Procnew.com, which pointed out that when you’ve got this:

x ||= y

it doesn’t expand to this:

x or x = y

(which is what I said in my last post) but rather to this:

x || x = y

I believe that’s right. It’s kind of hidden until you do:

a = x ||= y

and you start to see that it behaves like the || expansion, not the or expansion.

The example on Procnew.com has one glitch, which is that on line 9 of the irb session, it’s using a value that’s already set (h[:y]), so it’s never going to jump over the || anyway. Still, I believe the point is right.

Pending other edge-case edge-cases, anyway…. :-)