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		mbell on Dec 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Modern Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or web.... I seem to remember this same feature causing lots of headache in C in the form of subtle bugs mostly the result of this being used in awkward ways. Personally I'd rather have a distinct boolean value to test for, the java version is much more explicit as to exactly what its doing.

waffle_ss on Dec 2, 2011 [–]

Hmm can't say I've ever encountered something like that in Ruby so far. However, if you want a strict boolean it's pretty easy to get:

  !!STUDENTS.remove(uid)

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