From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@...>
Date: 2006-01-29T06:05:57+09:00
Subject: Re: nil != []

Alex Polite wrote:
> OK. Here's my second stupid question for today.
> 
> What's the rational behind having 0, [] and "" evaluate to true? ""
> and [], I could kind of see. But 0, how on Gods earth can 0 true?
> 
> alex
> 
> --
> Alex Polite
> http://flosspick.org - finding the right open source

how on earth can -1 be true?

No special reason, it's just that way. use zero? if you want to know if 
it's zero. (What bugs you is the low level knowledge (or better an idea) 
on how 0 and false would be represented in memory - Qnil is a 4 in ruby :))

cheers

Simon

btw: i love pythons way in this case