From: "Robert C. Martin" <rmartin@...>
Date: 2001-12-06T15:12:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27642] Re: String#== : Why not error with different type?

On 30 Nov 2001 06:57:57 -0800, furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ryo Furue)
wrote:

>do you do the Star Trek thing, screaming "this does not
>> compute, this does not compute" 

Dave, PLEASE!  That's the "Lost in Space" thing.  The Star Trek thing
is "Non Sequitur, your facts are not coordinated." -- Nimrod.


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