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		dyingkneepad on Dec 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby develope... I have problems with 'unless' even in plain English text. I'm pretty good at English, I live in the USA, but I was not born here and my native language does not have a word for 'unless' (you have to use 3 words to express that idea!). I love Ruby, but the 'if' variation always get immediately parsed by my brain, while the 'unless' variation requires many seconds of thinking.

layer8 on Dec 13, 2022 [–]

How about if you could write except if instead of unless?

dyingkneepad on Dec 14, 2022 | [–]

Nothing will ever come close to "if not" due to the decades of experience I have reading it everywhere.

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