From: Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com>
To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 05:34:10 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bs8vr1h7.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200207251953.g6PJroMJ009180@miso.k.notwork.org>
GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@notwork.org> writes:
> I vote #truth?. If someone asks `why not boolean' we can plead that
> Boolean algebra is just one of characterizations but not synonym for
> the truth value.
If you call Regexp#match with a non-string argument, it calls that
argument's to_str method to coerce it into a string.
So, perhaps, if the expression to pass to 'if', 'while', and friends
isn't 'true' or 'false', the interpreter should call #truth? on it to
coerce it into a truth value.[1]
If that sounds logical, then perhaps #to_truth might be a more
consistent name.
Dave
[1] Doing this would allow Perl fans to do
class String
def truth?
!empty?
end
end
class Integer
def truth?
!zero?
end
end
Aarrgh...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-25 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-24 15:02 [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) Robert Skarwecki
2002-07-24 16:51 ` Boolean class (Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h) Yukihiro Matsumoto
2002-07-24 19:50 ` [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) GOTO Kentaro
2002-07-24 20:05 ` Dave Thomas
2002-07-25 4:22 ` unifying nil and false (Re: [PATCH] object.c ruby.h) Yukihiro Matsumoto
2002-07-25 4:59 ` Dave Thomas
2002-07-25 6:46 ` Yukihiro Matsumoto
2002-07-25 11:06 ` [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) GOTO Kentaro
2002-07-25 13:20 ` Dave Thomas
2002-07-25 17:42 ` nobu.nokada
2002-07-25 17:55 ` Dave Thomas
2002-07-25 18:11 ` nobu.nokada
2002-07-25 18:28 ` Dave Thomas
2002-07-25 19:53 ` GOTO Kentaro
2002-07-25 20:34 ` Dave Thomas [this message]
2002-07-25 22:23 ` GOTO Kentaro
2002-07-27 8:04 ` Masaki Suketa
2002-07-27 12:40 ` Dave Thomas
2002-08-03 9:04 ` Masaki Suketa
2002-08-05 1:39 ` NAKAMURA, Hiroshi
2002-08-06 11:53 ` Masaki Suketa
2002-08-09 13:20 ` NAKAMURA, Hiroshi
2002-08-10 12:19 ` Masaki Suketa
2002-08-12 3:48 ` NAKAMURA, Hiroshi
2002-07-26 10:11 ` YANAGAWA Kazuhisa
2002-07-31 14:47 ` A truth? patch + benchmarks Christoph
2002-07-31 15:03 ` ts
2002-08-01 6:39 ` Christoph
2002-08-01 7:02 ` Yukihiro Matsumoto
2002-08-02 7:12 ` Christoph
2002-08-02 7:20 ` ts
2002-08-02 8:54 ` Christoph
2002-08-03 9:51 ` Yukihiro Matsumoto
2002-08-05 0:58 ` Christoph
2002-08-05 1:44 ` nobu.nokada
2002-08-16 6:52 ` Mswin32 build flags Christoph
2002-08-16 7:12 ` U.Nakamura
2002-09-03 18:51 ` Christoph
2002-07-26 1:16 ` [PATCH] object.c ruby.h (fwd) NAKAMURA, Hiroshi
2002-07-26 15:23 ` Michal Rokos
2002-07-26 15:31 ` Dave Thomas
2002-07-26 16:37 ` Yukihiro Matsumoto
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