From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2002-02-18T20:33:50+09:00
Subject: Re: x =~ /pat/, "return type?"

Alexander Schofield wrote:

>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? :-)
>>
>
Thanks to everyone for the various suggestions.  The code I'm calling is 
assert() in RubyUnit, so I'm not going to be able to change the libary. 
 (Well, I could, I suppose, but there are lots of reasons not too...)