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Re: pipe question

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Ha Ha.  I was interpeting the pipes as empty arguments of an empty 
block, which made no sence to me.  Logical operators didn't even occure 
to me.  Seems funny now.  Thank you John and Josh for helping me see the 
light.

The || is a Logical OR Operator that returns the first true value (in 
Ruby anything besides false and nil is true).  I ran this demonstration 
in irb:
>> true || true
=> true
>> true || false
=> true
>> false || true
=> true
>> false || false
=> false

>> 1 || 2
=> 1
>> 1 || false
=> 1
>> false || 2
=> 2
>> false || false
=> false

>> 1 || 2
=> 1
>> 1 || nil
=> 1
>> nil || 2
=> 2
>> nil || nil
=> nil

>> nil || nil || 3 || 4
=> 3

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pipe question wolf volpi <wolf_volpi@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-03 21:58 -0500
  Re: pipe question John Feminella <johnf@bitsbuilder.com> - 2011-04-03 22:08 -0500
    Re: pipe question Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-04 02:36 -0500
  Re: pipe question Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-03 22:42 -0500
    Re: pipe question Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 04:58 -0500
      Re: pipe question Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-05 04:01 -0500
    Re: pipe question 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-04 19:12 -0500
      Re: pipe question Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 22:30 -0500
        Re: pipe question Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-05 10:27 -0500
        Re: pipe question 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-05 21:06 -0500
        Re: pipe question Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 02:00 -0500
      Re: pipe question Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-05 21:23 -0500
  Re: pipe question wolf volpi <wolf_volpi@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-03 23:55 -0500

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