From: progcat@...
Date: 2007-04-18T11:10:07+09:00
Subject: nil in evaluations



Problem:  I have functions that sometimes evaluate to nil and cause my
program to crash in comparisons, etc.

For example g(x) and f(x) either could be nill in the following:
if g(x) > f(x)
     p "not reached"
else
     p "also not reached but I want it to reach here if either fuction
returns nil"
end

What can I do to make any comparison that has nil in it to evaluate to
false?  I have seen operator overloading and class definitions in
ruby, so I imagine this would be quite simple.

(I know I can set g(x) and f(x) to variables before the if statement,
but I really want to avoid that)

Thanks in advance,
Tom