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Ayende Rahien commented on Redefining If

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:38:28 GMT

It would be easier, but Boo emits an op_Equality test, and since we are dealing with duck typing here, it will not note the user defined op_Equality or the Equals() override

Avish commented on Redefining If

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:30:21 GMT

Uhm, maybe I'm not reading it right, but wouldn't it be easier to make your null object equal to null by overriding Equals()? then you'd still be able to do "if ?Errors" etc. What am I missing?

Steven Harman commented on Redefining If

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:38:17 GMT

Haha... my bad. I guess my sarcasm didn't quite come across... I seem to have trouble with that when it comes to written communication. I supposed I could have used a little markup to help. insert snarky comment here :)

Ayende Rahien commented on Redefining If

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:30:48 GMT

Moles, Oh, then I guess I shouldn't tell when I did to the goto statement, then :-D

Ayende Rahien commented on Redefining If

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:26:51 GMT

Steven, _that_ was a joke, I am afraid.

Miles Thompson commented on Redefining If

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:20:38 GMT

Ayende, I worship you like a god (small G) but.. seriously 'redefining if'.. argh, sounds much more like something one would read at the daily wtf (worsethanfailure.com) than here..

Steven Harman commented on Redefining If

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:38:18 GMT

> if 2+2 == 4 will not do the expected thing anymore And what about the Principle of Least Surprise... breaking your own rules, eh? :)

Ayende Rahien commented on Redefining If

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:51:04 GMT

Yeah, fairly amazing. https://svn.castleproject.org/svn/castle/trunk/MonoRail/ Castle.MonoRail.Views.Brail/FixTryGetParameterConditionalChecks.cs Basically, transform "if ?Errors" to "if not TryGetParameter("Errors") isa IgnoreNull"

Avish commented on Redefining If

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:49:12 GMT

How did you redefine if? A custom compiler step?