From: "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>
Date: 2009-11-16T01:22:58+09:00
Subject: Re: very newbie question

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duxieweb:

> 2009/11/15 Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@alice.it>:

>> Because 0 is a true value in ruby, so !queue is false and the body of
>> the if expression is not executed. In ruby, the only false values are
>> false and nil.

> Oh, that sounds so different from
> other languages that 0 is a true value.

That=E2=80=99s one of Ruby=E2=80=99s (more-or-less-)distinctive features, w=
hich
many Rubyists =E2=80=93 myself included =E2=80=93 actually find very elegan=
t.

You might want to take a some of these links as
well: http://www.google.com/search?q=3DRuby+gotchas

=E2=80=94 Shot
--=20
X Window is the Iran-Contra of graphical user interfaces: a tragedy of
political compromises, entangled alliances, marketing hype, and just
plain greed. X Window is to memory as Ronald Reagan was to money.
                                            [The Unix Haters Handbook]

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