From: Paul Duncan <pabs@...>
Date: 2002-09-11T22:38:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

* Gavin Sinclair (gsinclair@soyabean.com.au) wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William Djaja Tjokroaminata" <billtj@z.glue.umd.edu>
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Taking "if" and "unless" as the example, the point to be made is that I
> > think we can make a judgment whether "unless" really contributes to the
> > expressiveness of a programming language, independent of whether it is a
> > built-in keyword in the language itself or not.
> > 
> > If we say yes, then in Ruby we will use both "if" and "unless", but then
> > because "unless" is so useful, when we code in C, we are supposed to
> > define the "unless macro" and make good use of both "if" and "unless".
> 
> No, we stop programming in C because it doesn't have "unless".

#define unless(a) if (!(a))

> Gavin

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