From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-11-12T10:16:25+09:00
Subject: Re: non-nil, etc.  (was Re: true? & false?)

Hi --

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:

> On Thursday 11 November 2004 07:30 pm, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> | Smiley shmiley:
> |
> |   require 'extensions/object'
> |
> |   if a.notnil?
> |     ...
> |   elsif b.nonnil?
> |     ...
> |   end
> 
> What's wrong with:
> 
>    if not a.nil?
>      ...
>    end

It looks good to me.  Also:

  unless a.nil?
    ...
  end

although I know some people don't like the unless/else sequence that
might follow on that.  


David

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David A. Black
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