From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2004-11-12T05:01:49+09:00
Subject: Re: true? & false?

Well that was just one example, of course I know about unless. I'm not
trying to get into a philosphically argument about unless vs. not v.s
false? The problem I have with unless is its starts looking weird if
its a multiway branch ie
if a
elsif b
elsif c
else

etc.


On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 04:56:17 +0900, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 04:47:27 +0900, Logan Capaldo
> 
> 
> <logancapaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well I have written true? and false? methods in the past. Forgetting
> > the best implementation  at the moment I use it because I find things
> > like:
> >
> > if a.nil?.false?
> >    ....
> > end
> >
> > more readable than
> >
> > if not a.nil?
> >  ....
> > end
> 
> unless a.nil?
> ....
> end
> 
> 
> 
> -austin
> --
> Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com
>                * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca
> 
>