From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2002-03-29T23:23:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Now that's surprising.

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:16:43PM +0900, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> Does anyone else think that the following little program is  an instance of
> Ruby violating the POLS by producing nil? I can fix it by uncommenting the
> commented line but I don't think that that should be required.
> 
> def truthTest
>     result = true
>     result = false unless result
>     # return result
> end
> 
> p truthTest
> 
How about:

  def truthTest
    r = true
    r = false unless r
    r
  end
  puts truthTest  #=> true


-- 
Jim Freeze
atto:       1e-18 = one quintillionth
parsec:     3.258 light-years: 3.258 * 186000 * 364 * 24 * 3600 * 5280 * 12
attoparsec: atto * parsec =~ 1.20 inch
My height:  62 inches / 1.2 = 51.7 attoparsecs
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