Colin Law wrote: > 2009/10/1 Greg Donald <[email protected]>: >> >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I think Jeffrey is right, "unless" with complex logic is just too >>> difficult for most of us to get our brains round easily. >> >> You just insulted thousands of Perl programmers. >> >> But seriously.. it's just the opposite of "if". > > Easy is the opposite of Difficult :)
I agree. Even in Perl, many people consider unless poor style. > > Maybe I should not have said 'most of us' but certainly it applies to > me. There is a similar problem with variables with names like > not_valid, it is too easy to overload the brain when included in a > logical expression. Quite. Never forget to avoid omitting to eschew expressing things in anything other than non-excessively negative form. :D > > Colin Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
