flebber writes: > On Monday, 6 October 2014 21:07:24 UTC+11, roro codeath wrote: > > in ruby: > > > > > > module M > > def ins_var > > @ins_var ||= nil > > end
... > I took || to be a ternary. So I assumed your code just sets ins_var > to nil and then is called in module m and supplied a val. Could be > wrong. > > if ins_var is None: > ins_var = 'val' Just out of interest, please, do you think the word 'ternary' is more or less synonymous with 'conditional'? I'm not being sarcastic. This possibility just occurred to me, and the world will begin to make more sense to me if it turns out that there are people who simply do not think 'three' when they think 'ternary'. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list