From: Alexander Schofield <pcs3@...>
Date: 2002-02-18T12:06:04+09:00
Subject: Re: x =~ /pat/, "return type?"

That sounds like your best bet, basically anything not nil or not false
is true.  It can make for shorter code while allowing for a return value
to have a double meaning-- if it is true, not only return a true value,
but something that may be useful.

David Alan Black wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, David Corbin wrote:
<snip>
> Or could you get your class to recognize more general true/false
> equivalences?  Or is there some nicer/shorter way to do it
> I'm not thinking of? :-)

-- 
Alexander Schofield