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0 pointslolc3y ago0 comments

While it may not matter in many circumstances, this is not the same as "if foo", because false is not nil.

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It's true but in 10+ years of writing Ruby it hasn't mattered in _any_ circumstances I've come across. I also assert that having a boolean where `nil` is meaningfully different than `false` is a smell and should be avoided.

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0 pointslolc3y ago0 comments

While it may not matter in many circumstances, this is not the same as "if foo", because false is not nil.

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sodapopcan3y ago

It's true but in 10+ years of writing Ruby it hasn't mattered in _any_ circumstances I've come across. I also assert that having a boolean where `nil` is meaningfully different than `false` is a smell and should be avoided.

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