From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2007-12-12T03:46:16+09:00
Subject: Re: opposite .nil?

Andrew Stone wrote:
> I've looked around, but could not find a method that is the opposite of
> .nil?.  I know there is !my_var.nil?, but I think my_var.exists? is more
> readable.
>
> I wanted to throw this out there before I added the method in myself.
>
> thanks,
> andy
>
>   

if not my_var.nil?

is the same as

if my_var

_unless_ my_var is false.

-Justin