On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:52:21 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto
<matz / ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
<snip> 
> At the risk of what warning message says?
> Try "$VERBOSE = nil" if you're sure.
> 
>                                                         matz.
> 
> 

This makes me want to ask (after playing with $VERBOSE) why $VERBOSE =
false is different than $VERBOSE = nil. Not that I would presume to
contest Matz, (thank you for Ruby oh so much) but doesn't this break
the whole false and nil are false concept? Would it be worse if it
were a numeric scale (like -W)?