Felipe Contreras wrote: > How exactly is it not equivalent to len = len || 1? Here, I dug up an article for you on the issue: http://www.rubyinside.com/what-rubys-double-pipe-or-equals-really-does-5488.html Although it's fine in this case, I wouldn't recommend using ||= because of the potential confusion. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html