From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-07-26T02:55:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd)

nobu.nokada@softhome.net writes:

> At Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:20:32 +0900,
> Dave Thomas wrote:
> > > Something built-in to get truth value of each object may help explain
> > > the boolean aspect in Ruby.
> > > 
> > >   % ruby -e '
> > >   module Kernel
> > >     def truth() !!self end
> > >   end
> > 
> > Perhaps #to_b?
> 
> How about "true?"?

Hi:


Well, to me, a.true? would imply the same as a == true, which isn't
what it does. #to_b, however, implies a conversion to the mythical
Boolean type. :)


Dave