It means the title
argument is optional. So if you call the method with no arguments it will use a default value of "Error"
.
It’s shorthand for writing:
if (!title) { title = "Error"; }
This kind of shorthand trick with boolean expressions is common in Perl too. With the expression:
a OR b
it evaluates to true
if either a
or b
is true
. So if a
is true you don’t need to check b
at all. This is called short-circuit boolean evaluation so:
var title = title || "Error";
basically checks if title
evaluates to false
. If it does, it “returns” "Error"
, otherwise it returns title
.
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