From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-06-16T13:26:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16529] Re: why only nil and false are regarded as false?

Steven Haryanto <steven@haryan.to> writes:

> I would appreciate some explanation on why Ruby behaves like 
> this

I suspect because the alternatives in other languages were error
prone. I know I've been bitten by loops that terminated prematurely in
Perl.

Do you have some examples where you'd like other values to be false?


Dave