From: Kent Dahl <kentda+news@...>
Date: 2003-09-18T00:02:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and OOP-design (question of an old "procedural person" ;)

Dan Doel wrote:
> It was just an example.  #nil? could be written that way, although then 
> it'd be pointless, since
> 
>    if  obj ...
> 
> Would be exactly the same as
> 
>    if obj.nil? ...
> 
> The only difference would be some readability.

.... and the special case where obj==false.

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