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On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 22:56 +0900, Robert Dober wrote:
> > Lets not forget also that doing things for the sake of being different help no
> > one. I for one must work in multiple languages. I still haven't forgiven Matz
> > for the whole, "0 is true" thing. ;-)
> That is the single best feature of Ruby once you got used to it --
> with "" is true!!!

One of the biggest advantages to this is that it makes || and ||=
actually useful for non-boolean stuff (by way of contrast, Perl has the
same operator behavior, but it's not as useful when common valid values
can be false).

-mental

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