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Feature #11627

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make `nonzero` an alias of `nonzero?`

Added by Anonymous over 8 years ago. Updated about 2 years ago.

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[ruby-core:71233]

Description

for historic reasons nonzero? returns self or nil. (according to https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9123)

I like the expectation that method? returns true and false.
That nonzero? returns only truthy/falsy values would be fine, except using its return values are useful.

value.nonzero? || calculation or (a <=> b).nonzero? || a.subvalue <=> b.subvalue

I would feel more comfortable with value.nonzero || calculation even though it is only one character different.

Yes, it's a small thing, but I like ruby for the small things :)

Thanks.

Updated by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) over 8 years ago

  • Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

When you say "for historic reasons nonzero? returns self or nil", it sounds like it was a mistake that can't be fixed for compatibility reason. I don't believe this to be true.

Also, do you also want Module#< and al. to be renamed?

String < Fixnum # => nil
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Updated by hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) about 2 years ago

  • Project changed from 14 to Ruby master
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