[#237] object.c ruby.h (fwd) — Robert Skarwecki <skaav@...>

Hello everybody,

42 messages 2002/07/24
[#239] Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) — GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@...> 2002/07/24

At Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:02:28 +0900,

[#240] Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2002/07/24

GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@notwork.org> writes:

[#246] Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) — GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@...> 2002/07/25

At Thu, 25 Jul 2002 05:05:46 +0900,

[#247] Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2002/07/25

GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@notwork.org> writes:

[#248] Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) — nobu.nokada@... 2002/07/25

Hi,

[#249] Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2002/07/25

nobu.nokada@softhome.net writes:

[#250] Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) — nobu.nokada@... 2002/07/25

Hi,

[#252] Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) — GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@...> 2002/07/25

At Fri, 26 Jul 2002 03:11:02 +0900,

[#253] Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2002/07/25

GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@notwork.org> writes:

Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd)

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-07-25 17:55:28 UTC
List: ruby-core #249
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

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