From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-03-24T00:58:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13144] Re: How would Ruby say this?



On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

> "Lyle Johnson" <ljohnson@resgen.com> writes:
> 
> > The first obvious option for exposing this function in Ruby is to return
> > both values as a two-element array, e.g.
> ...
> > But this is awkward. Another option I'm considering is to have the function
> > raise an exception for the "false" return status:
> 
> A third option would be to return 'nil' on no input (as presumably nil 
> can never be returned). Then you can write
> 
>   if res = getValue("What's the frequency..")
>      process ...
>   else
>      no input
>   end

Although... 1.6.3 still gives the "found = in conditional, should be ==" warning
(with -w). 


David

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