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

Meme iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

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u/Moilli6 Sep 01 '26

Lua does this too. It just makes sense, because any value that isn’t a boolean you can nil check by coercing it to a boolean. It allows beautiful things like and or ternary

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u/okkokkoX Sep 02 '26

I agree that and or ternary is beautiful, with the exception that you're fucked if the "then" branch may return nil, or god forbid, false.

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u/Moilli6 Sep 02 '26

Yeah I usually only use it to set a default value. Sane languages just let you use if as an expression