From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-02-04T00:40:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Local variables & blocks

Hi,

In message "Re: Local variables & blocks"
    on 03/02/03, ichimal@fenix.ne.jp <ichimal@fenix.ne.jp> writes:
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|In message "Re: Local variables & blocks"
|    on 03/02/03, matz writes:
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|>|  I say again, double meaning may be harmful.
|>Double meaning?  Which and which?
|
|  nil and false.

Hmm, do you mean #<non-initialized> value should be true?
Like Scheme's #<undef>?

|> We have nil from the beginning.
|
|"non-initialized => false" is a part of the Ruby's policy and you think
|there is no need to redesign, isn't it? So, I'll withdraw my opinion,
|at least in ruby.

Yes, it's part of Ruby's policy.

|  Maybe, I have over reactioned to the words "reasonable" and
|"save additional test". Usually, I cannot belive those words.

whose words are they?

							matz.