From: Sebastian Steinlechner <ttt@...>
Date: 2006-01-29T07:04:06+09:00
Subject: Re: nil != []

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Alex Polite wrote:
> Well I do understand that it's a convention. They same is true for a
> lot of things. Like the positioning of gas and break pedals in cars.
> It's just a convention. But when GM puts a new car in the market they
> don't swap them. My question is why the constructors of Ruby did?

Well... 0 evaluating to false is a convention used mainly in the C/C++
programming world. Many other languages that have been around for years
don't treat 0 as false. Pascal being one of them, IIRC. So Ruby is not
really breaking with a convention -- as there is none.

Sebastian
-- 
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

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