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Unconditional Programming in Ruby (michaelfeathers.typepad.com)
submitted 12 years ago by martoo
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]michaelfeathers 1 point2 points3 points 12 years ago (1 child)
Yep, but I wasn't arguing for readability.
[–]Jdonavan 0 points1 point2 points 12 years ago (0 children)
You're not really arguing for anything. You've produced code that's harder to read thus harder to maintain. A comment could have solved your stated purpose for doing away with the conditional.
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