r/ProgrammerHumor 18h ago

Meme iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

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u/TheTroll007 13h 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 10h ago

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

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u/Arxae 10h ago

Not i a programming context. 0 is still a value. Even though the value might represent nothing, it's still a value.

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u/TheTroll007 7h ago

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

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u/MinecraftPlayer799 8h ago

Can everyone keep this comment at exactly 0 votes?