From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-11-02T06:43:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Another scrach on head

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, mark sparshatt wrote:

> then they'll be surprised when something like
>
> re = /./
> if re.match("a").true? then
> puts "match"
> end
>
> never prints match

don't you think would suprise most newbies too?

   harp:~ > cat a.rb
   re = /./
   if re.match("a") == true
     puts "match"
   end

   harp:~ > ruby a.rb
   (nothing)

i don't think there is anyway around that the fact that newbies must learn that
true (in ruby) is a singleton object and that fact can bite you many ways - and
this is not limited to only #true?

regards.

-a
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