[Nitro] cookie.rb ?

[Michael Kohl]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:21:06 -0800 akonsu <akonsu at gmail.com> wrote:

> could someone explain this code found in cookie.rb:
> 
>   def expires=(t)
>     @expires = t && (t.is_a?(Time) ? t.httpdate : t.to_s)
>   end
> 
> why does it need the "t &&" part?

It's an idiom that I mostly know from shell scripts, where it's used to
replace simple "if foo then bla" statements. Here's a bash example:

[ -z ${var} ] && bla

instead of

if [ -z ${var} ] ; then
	bla
fi

Hope that helps,
Michael

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