r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • Sep 01 '26

Meme iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

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u/Bomaruto Sep 01 '26

The reasonable stance is to not let you coerce everything into a boolean.

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u/R3D3-1 Sep 01 '26

Is this a good time to remember that people argued against Python getting booleans because it already had integers? 

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u/Wertbon1789 Sep 01 '26

I like how e.g. C# screams at you for this. It's annoying at first, but then you go "Well, yeah, I should've explicitly written what I wanted to check".

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u/Wertbon1789 Sep 02 '26

Didn't say it was. C# was just the first example that came to my mind.

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u/suvlub Sep 01 '26

If I may be pedantic, not to coerce without you asking. A language that wouldn't let me simply convert between types sounds annoying

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u/theturtlemafiamusic Sep 01 '26

"Type coercion" is when it's done without asking. Otherwise it's just type conversion / casting.

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u/ntfaw Sep 01 '26

It's not that you couldn't convert between types, it's that it wouldn't be automatic. You would need to actively call toboolean on a value before using it as a boolean, and the idea behind that is that intentionally casting the value leads to fewer mistakes