From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-08-09T20:31:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and OOP-design (question of an old "procedural person" ;)

Kent Dahl <kentda+news@stud.ntnu.no> wrote:
> 
> That was my gut reaction at first but:
> $ ruby1.8 -v -e "p( -5.nonzero?, 5.nonzero?, 0.nonzero? )"
> ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i686-linux]
> -5
> 5
> nil

*blink*

Okay, I'm officially Surprised. Seriously, I don't see this as a good
thing - ? methods ought to be strictly boolean IMO, and not rely on the
'value' of true. Otherwise, some of their self-documenting nature is
lost.

martin