2009/10/2 Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]>: > > 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
It took me a couple of minutes to decide, but +1 Colin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
