From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2007-06-04T23:33:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Introducing the "it" keyword

On 4 Jun 2007, at 06:09, Robert Dober wrote:
> On 6/3/07, Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
>> On 31 May 2007, at 06:35, Robert Dober wrote:
>> > But maybe things should really by simple
>> >
>> > return if x > 42
>> > return unless (x+1)%2 == 0 # not zero? here
>> >
>> > could probably made syntactically work (differently than now) and
>> > return the LHS of the expression iff the expression evaluates to  
>> true
>> > or false respectively.
>>
>> Unfortunately this would greatly complicate the situation in which a
>> return without value is intended...
> That does not exist :)

The _intent_ often exists, regardless of the fact that Ruby always  
returns a value ;)

Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason