From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-06T15:03:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12094] Re: Another hook

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:12093] Another hook"
    on 01/03/06, Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

|If we're in to hooks, there's another that might be useful:
|
|  to_bool:
|     analogous to to_s, called whenever an object is used in a context 
|     that requires a boolean value (this one came up on
|     #ruby-lang). Masochists could use this to emulate Perl

And performance would be the excuse again.

							matz.