From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-10-30T06:42:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Another scrach on head

Mohammad Khan wrote:

>>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 !!
>
>  
>
I fail to see where the problem is. if *a* is not an instance of the 
NilClass or the FalseClass and *a* does not evaluate to nil or false, 
then it will always evaluate to true in a boolean expression. ie:

puts "a is neither nil && is not false && is not FALSE" if a

Where do you see that that will fail?

Also, if *a* is an instance of the TrueClass then it will equal true. ie;

puts "a is true" if a == true

if a is literally an instance of the TrueClass, but not if *a* is an 
instance of anything else.

Where are you seeing a problem?

Zach