From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-11-01T23:28:50+09:00
Subject: Re: New Ruby conditional semantics thoughts


"Florian Gross" <flgr@ccan.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:2ulja3F2akid1U1@uni-berlin.de...
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>
>>> This also allows change in behavior and more false
>>> types to be added to ruby. This will help the with implementation of
>>> DSLs using ruby.
>>
>> Hmm...  I'm not sure whether I understand this: where exactly does it 
>> help to have more "false" values when implementing DSL's?
>
> It's quite useful for proxies. For example a WeakRef to false will not 
> behave exactly like false. This is a bigger problem when you're trying to 
> do some more exotic proxies. (This is needed for Junctions like they exist 
> in Perl 6.)

Good point!  Thx!

    robert