“David Garamond” lists@zara.6.isreserved.com schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Robert Klemme wrote:
Thankfully in Ruby
things are simplified: nil and false values are always false,
everything
else is true.Alas, I actually didn’t even think about C when writing this
Was
comparing it to Python, PHP, Perl, etc. on my mind.
Ah, I see. Actually I was still referring to Dimitri’s posting where he
talked about his “damn C background”. I just wanted to make it very clear
that it’s a bad idea to write such code especially in C. So C
background shouldn’t be used as an excuse for this idiom.
Kind regards
robert