On 4/13/07, Eleanor McHugh <eleanor / games-with-brains.com> wrote: > On 13 Apr 2007, at 13:29, Robert Dober wrote: > > On 4/13/07, Robert Klemme <shortcutter / googlemail.com> wrote: > >> On 13.04.2007 13:07, Robert Dober wrote: > >> Certainly a lot more. However, my main point was to simply store the > >> result of func(b) in another variable and reuse that. Sometimes the > >> cool solutions are not without issues (see the other postings) and a > >> pragmatic solution can be better at times. :-) > > Sure no argument here. > > I just screwed up, I am touched that you have not even seen my > > *serious blunder* > > a = x if x > > is kind of *not* > > a ||=x > > I suspect we've all made that mistake at one time or another ;) Really nice of you to say so, but to be honest, 99.99999% of the people having made that mistake wisely refused to send it to the ML ;) R. > > Ellie > > Eleanor McHugh > Games With Brains > ---- > raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason > > > > -- You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not? -- George Bernard Shaw