On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I don't see the confusion, 'len ||= 1' is *exactly* the same as 'len = 1 if not len', which is what I expected. -- Felipe Contreras -- 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