[Rails-spinoffs] Re: Can't understand this wierd scripting

[Brad Ediger]

Ruby and Perl do this. IIRC, it started off as a Perl idiom. On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Ken Snyder wrote: Is this "defaulting" behavior found in any other languages besides _javascript_?  I tried it in PHP; PHP seems to always return true or false; --Ken Brad Ediger wrote: ... {a: 3} || {}   // ==> {a: 3} null   || {}   // ==> {}     null   || 0    // ==> 0      --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---