From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 15:13:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/15] Add new git-related helper to contrib
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Felipe Contreras wrote:
> How exactly is it not equivalent to len = len || 1?

Here, I dug up an article for you on the issue:

http://www.rubyinside.com/what-rubys-double-pipe-or-equals-really-does-5488.html

Although it's fine in this case, I wouldn't recommend using ||=
because of the potential confusion.