From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-07-06T18:45:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Object#=~

Hi,

In message "Re: Object#=~"
    on Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:41:18 +0900, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> writes:

|Since Rexexp#=~ and String#=~ return nil if they fail to match,  
|shouldn't Object#=~ return nil as well? It returns false currently.

As far as I can say, =~ returns true (non-false) value when it
matches, and returns false value (nil or false) when it doesn't match.
Making it return nil is trivial, but I'm not sure yet to change.  I
will try changing it on HEAD.

							matz.