From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-11-01T23:15:31+09:00
Subject: Re: New Ruby conditional semantics thoughts

I'm really not trying to be obtuse here, but I still don't get why
this is useful -- especially so useful that it would need to become
part of the Ruby core language. For DSLs, this sort of behaviour can
become part of the standard 'require' for that language (e.g., require
'truthDSL').

I honestly do not see the value of doing.

    foo.ifTrue { bar; baz }

as opposed to doing:

    if foo
      bar
      baz
    end

IME, the only time that the "if foo" construct tends to give people
problems is when they come from C-like languages where 0 is false
(e.g., foo = 0; if foo ...).

-austin