From: Henning von Rosen <henning@...>
Date: 2001-11-21T22:52:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26014] Re: positive


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tobias Reif" <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:39 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:26012] Re: positive


> Thanks; now i did
> 
> def not_neg n
>    if n <= 0
>      n = 0
>    end
>    n
> end

or, if you like the ruby idiom of numeric funcs being methods of numbers:

class Numeric
   def not_neg
    self<0 ? 0 : self
  end
end

/h