From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-09-15T22:46:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about 'unless' (negated if)

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:40:16PM +0900, Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Thursday 14 September 2006 01:14 am, Mike Dvorkin wrote:
> > In your example "unless" is applicable only to the line it appears
> > in. Synonym of "unless" is "if not", i.e.:
> 
> Not the OP, but thank you!  Somehow "if not" resonates better in my head than 
> "unless".  I wonder if many other people, not yet intimate with unless in 
> Ruby, find it the same.
> 
> Probably too late to change, and I'm not advocating a change, but if I were 
> writing a new programming language ... 
> 
> (I.e., ifnot, somewhat analogous to the elseif construct in some languages).
Just do it.
if not condition
  ...
end
Easy ;)