From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2003-12-13T02:05:47+09:00
Subject: Re: types? casting and bools

Hi --

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, KONTRA Gergely wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Recently I ran into the problem:
> 
> Why ruby handle booleans so liberally?
> I mean why can I pass anything to an if, and for constructs requiring
> bool? I guess many programmers do it the wrong way saying "if 0" and
> expecting to be true...

It is true:

  if 0
    puts "yes"
  end

  # =>   yes

> And on the other hand I must use to_i and others to convert from one
> type to another.

You mean you want to have to put "to_bool" everywhere? :-)


David

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David A. Black
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