From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2003-07-15T05:49:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Booleans


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "KONTRA Gergely" <kgergely@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: Booleans


> On 0715, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > I would also be happy if the test for falseness was less simplistic than
> > "false is false, nil is false, everything else is true".  I am
constantly
> > being bitten by the fact that 0 is true.
> What about not automagically converting everything to boolean?

Then the following nice feature would not be possible:

  @var ||= SomeClass.new

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