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gabriele renzi (surrender_it / rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com) wrote:

> il Tue, 18 May 2004 17:15:26 -0400, "Richard Lionheart"
> <NoOne / Nowhere.com> ha scritto::
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I can't find anything in Programming Ruby to suggest why zero is treateds
> >true,  as happens in lines and 12 in the following toy program.  Is it
> >perhaps because Ruby has no boolean type,  so zero gets converted to a
> >string, or something?  Aside from an explantion,  can you cite a relevant
> >page in the Thomas&Hunt book?
> 
> don't know the page, but you can safely assume that every object is
> true in ruby, excluding nil and false. And, well, false and true seem
> booleans to me :)

Also of note are the methods #nil? and #zero?  Naturally the later only
works on Numerics.

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