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[–] 105 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Please God let this be a humorous post that somehow does not also find a way to manage to come true...

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  • [–] 89 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    I would have bought it if they said ifnot instead, it's the same number of characters and wouldn't require a major parser overhaul to support keywords with a ' in the name.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    i mean, “unless” tends to be the usual term for an “if not” keyword in languages that implement such a thing

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Which is awful and incredibly confusing. I hate ruby

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