From: mark sparshatt <msparshatt@...>
Date: 2004-11-02T06:14:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Another scrach on head

Jim Weirich wrote:
> Austin Ziegler said:
> 
>>See, that's why I'm not getting this. [...]
> 
> 
> Me too.
> 
> Actually, I see #true? as potentially confusing.  Imagine explaining to a
> newbie why
> 
>    if cond
> 
> and
> 
>    if cond.true?
> 
> are not equivalent.
> 

Another problem is that a lot (perhaps most) tests within ruby don't 
return the literal TRUE value.

So if people get used to using

if cond.true?

rather than just

if cond

then they'll be surprised when something like

re = /./
if re.match("a").true? then
puts "match"
end

never prints match

--
Mark Sparshatt