From: Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@...>
Date: 2008-08-24T19:06:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Why 'if 0' succeeds in Ruby

Dave Bass wrote:
> But unfortunately Ruby regards both false and nil as not-true. For some 
> reason, this is touted as a feature.
> 
> False and nil are two quite different concepts and should not be 
> conflated.

They aren't conflated. nil != false in ruby, but nil and false have the 
same conditional value. Both are conditionally false. In my experience 
this has been the right call by matz all the way.

Regards
Stefan (apeiros)
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