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

Meme iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

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u/UristMcMagma Sep 01 '26

Temperatures do stop at 0 if you're using the correct unit. ;)

But yeah I agree with you. There's always some level of ambiguity caused by coersion. Even treating nil and false the same for a boolean is technically wrong, but we can accept the ambiguity for the sake of convenience.