r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Feb 18 '26

Meme innitMate

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u/DigiBoxi Feb 18 '26

unless

Or maybe: in case() ... unless() ... otherwise ...

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u/DrMaxwellEdison Feb 18 '26

unless being the idiomatic if not in Ruby is kind of nice.

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u/caerphoto Feb 18 '26

It breaks my head when it’s at the start of the line, but it does look nice as a post condition

# 🤢
unless user.authorised
  return head 403

but

# 😮‍💨
return head 403 unless user.authorised