On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:12 PM, <brabuhr / gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Robert Dober <robert.dober / gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter >> <charles.nutter / sun.com> wrote: >> >>> DO NOT use unless...else. It's the most confusing conditional construct >>> ever. Use if and flop the bodies, or just use if !condition. >> >> I have never heard you shout before, *unless* I am mistaken ;). >> I always felt that unless is just the human readable way of saying if >> not, but accountants do not have any taste (or something like that ;). > > I don't think the confusion issue was simply unless, but rather > pairing unless with else. Hmm that indeed is a little more misleading, sorry for not getting this but the ellipsis put me astray;).