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		eyelidlessness on Dec 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby develope... Oh my dear lord I didn’t think I’d actually disagree with the f’ing article but I had like 8 cases today that made me wish I had a built in if-not keyword! I mean, every language with the billion dollar mistake probably needs a language feature designed to pay back some of that.

trfzx on Dec 13, 2022 [–]

I think the author would probably be fine with an if-not. It doesn't hide the double negation like unless.

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