From: Mohammad Khan <mkhan@...>
Date: 2004-10-30T06:29:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Another scrach on head


> David,
> 
> I don't agree at this point, I would like to say
> 
> puts "a is neither nil, nor false, nor FALSE" if a
> puts "a is true"                              if a == true
> 
> I consider nil, false and true as three different entity.
> I don't need to show you irb screen output to illustrate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mohammad
> 

Correcting myself,
if it is  (not nil and  not false and  not FALSE)
only remaining state is .. true or TRUE !!

:p

Mohammad



> 
> 
> >   puts "a is false"                  if a.nil?
> > 
> > in the Boolean sense of true/false.  Ruby provides the constants TRUE
> > and FALSE, for the respective objects; this might be a good way to
> > write your example (and my additions):
> > 
> > puts "a is nil"                    if a.nil?
> > puts "a is neither nil, 
> >      nor false, nor FALSE"         if a
> > puts "a is TRUE"                   if a == TRUE
> > puts "a is true"                   if a
> > puts "a is FALSE"                  if a == FALSE
> > puts "a is false"                  if not a
> > puts "a is nil again!"             if a == nil
> > puts "a is false"                  if a.nil?
> > 
> > Here, I'm using 'true/false' to mean Boolean true/false, and
> > TRUE/FALSE to mean the objects.  
> > 
> > 
> > David
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