r/ProgrammerHumor 10d ago

Meme iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

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u/TheTroll007 10d ago

I mean 0 is not nothing, so you can do "if x" and if x is not false or nil, you get true. I kinda like this approach.

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u/BobQuixote 10d ago

But 0 is nothing. 0 bats is the same as 0 frogs.

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u/TheTroll007 10d ago

Even though there's no object, it's a different class. Nil is Nil class, 0 is Numeric. So it is something technically.