Yeah you are right I am working on Firefox Debian .
You seem to be genious.
On Feb 17, 5:42 pm, Christophe Porteneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey Pankaj,
>
> Pankaj a écrit :
>
> > num = num [[ $F('refid');
>
> > What is that actually ?
> > Is it a bracket or the OR ?
>
> OMG, don't you even have a font that lets you distinguish between [[ and
> ||? How can you possibly work?
>
> Aside from this, I don't know of a single language that features a [[
> operator... If you find [[, it's usually because you're opening two
> levels of array literals... which you'd obviously close later on.
>
> You seem to be reading your email through Firefox on Debian (1.0.4, too.
> Upgrade, man!). Hitting Ctrl+Plus a few times should resolve the
> ambiguity when you're in doubt on characters.
>
> It's a double pipe (||), not a double opening bracket. It's a logical
> OR operator. It's a common Prototype idiom:
>
> a = a || defaultValue;
>
> If a is undefined then (as would a parameter that got no argument when
> the function was called), in the context of "a || defaultValue", a will
> be boolean-equivalent to false, thus triggering evaluation of the
> right-hand operand: defaultValue. And a will use that default value.
>
> But if a is not undefined, unless its current value is
> boolean-equivalent to false (as would be zero, for instance), its
> current value will remain used, and the right-hand operand will be ignored.
>
> I hope you get it now...
>
> --
> Christophe Porteneuve a.k.a. TDD
> "[They] did not know it was impossible, so they did it." --Mark Twain
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