From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-07-15T06:17:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Booleans

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 05:34:02 +0900, 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.

If you *know* that you will be getting a Fixnum in response, you can use Fixnum#nonzero? and Fixnum#zero? to get the tests that you're after.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.07.14
                                         * 17:15:07