From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-06-04T23:48:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Introducing the "it" keyword

On 6/4/07, Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
> 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 ;)
I am not a native speaker but nevertheless I get the feeling that you
are cheating here ;)
Am I right?
Cheers
Robert