Unless, The Abused Ruby Conditional

@ijonas Even Ruby people think that's a bad idea

The only people that don’t like “unless” are either: A) Old school programmers, which I can understand. B) Blog followers, the people that let the hip blogs choose their mindset. I’ve personally thought, from back in my C/C++ days, that “if not” sounded like the most obscure piece of dog shit I’ve ever had to read. Not that its hard to understand, but the fact that I never say “If not” in plain English. News Flash people: Unless IS If not… and if you see it, you should think that way if you have a problem. Now I can jive with your rules above, but people need to settle down and understand that Unless is just one of many things that makes Ruby so much of a pleasure to use for English speaking programmers.

Full article: http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2008/12/01/unless-the-...