From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-01-30T14:50:49+09:00
Subject: Re: nil question

Sam Roberts wrote
> In ruby, zero and empty strings are true

Since 0 is true, you should be able to do this in Ruby:

puts "yes" if -5 < x < 9

The phrase '-5 < x' should yield the value of x instead of true.
That's the way it actually works in the Icon programming language.
But we have to use the klunky

puts "yes" if -5 < x and x < 9