From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-02-18T20:59:45+09:00
Subject: Re: x =~ /pat/, "return type?"

Hello --

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, David Corbin wrote:

> 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...)

OK, now that I know the specifics, I can provide a nicer way to do
it :-)

  def test_regex
    assert_match(/a/, "a")
    assert_not_match(/a/, "b")
  end


David

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