From: "Marcin Mielżyński" <lopexx@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T01:58:22+09:00
Subject: Re: boolean annoyance

Claudio Jeker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> there is one thing in ruby that annoys me most (at least for now).
> 
> if 0
> 	puts "true"
> end
> 

0 is a proper instance of the Fixnum class, how can it be considered as 
a false? And remeber, only few languages consider 0 as a false (c and 
python considerably) and not even by java/smalltalk etc!


lopex