iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

[u/Embarrassed_Death69]

[u/deceze]

Any value that causes an if statement to run its associated block, instead of going to else/doing nothing.

[u/Nimeroni → u/deceze]

His argument is that you should make your if statement explicit.

[u/Key_Conversation5277 → u/Nimeroni]

Yes

[u/deceze → u/Nimeroni]

Ah, my bad.

if (thing is truthy) {
    print('Yeah, much better');
}

[u/rosuav → u/Nimeroni]

I'd venture to guess that everyone who whines that truthiness should be replaced with explicit comparisons has never programmed in REXX, and probably won't even understand why I'm making that reference.