From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2004-05-20T23:42:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Zero is true ... whoda thunk?

[Claus Spitzer <DocBoobenstein@gmail.com>, 2004-05-20 02.53 CEST]
> On Thu, 20 May 2004 09:47:07 +0900, Nicholas Van Weerdenburg
> <nick@activehitconsulting.com> wrote:
> > 
> > nonzero? returned nil instead of false for me. Shouldn't it return false?
> 
> 8< ----- snip -----
> 
> No. From the pickaxe:
> 
> nonzero?  num.nonzero? -> num or nil  
> 
> Returns num if num is not zero, nil otherwise. This behavior is useful
> when chaining comparisons:
> 
> a = %w( z Bb bB bb BB a aA Aa AA A )  
> b = a.sort {|a,b| (a.downcase <=> b.downcase).nonzero? || a <=> b }  
> b  � ["A", "a", "AA", "Aa", "aA", "BB", "Bb", "bB", "bb", "z"]  

But why shouldn't it return false instead of nil?