From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T06:54:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby - common pitfalls?

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:37:23AM +0900, Rudolf Polzer wrote:
> - the if syntax. Pascal-style if is supported (and one is tempted to use
>   it instead of the also supported C-style if since parantheses aren't
>   easy to enter on most keyboards), but comparisons have to be written
>   in C style. Therefore this happened to me more than once:
> 
>     if foo = nil then
>       # ...
>     end

Note that you get warnings for this when using ruby -w

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