Class: BasicObject

Defined in:
lib/englishest.rb

Overview

Treating some corner cases specifically

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#consent?(topic = true) ⇒ Boolean Also known as: nod?

Consent tacitely mean “compared to truth” when no topic is given



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# File 'lib/englishest.rb', line 145

def consent?(topic = true)
  equal? topic
end

#dissent?(topic = true) ⇒ Boolean Also known as: deny?, axe?

Opposite of consent, although this is implemented as a fully automous determination, which inter alia avoid some technical convonlutions



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# File 'lib/englishest.rb', line 152

def dissent?(topic = true)
  !equal?(topic)
end

#positive? ⇒ Boolean Also known as: good?, ok?, pro?

Alternative to the double bang prefix notation returning the result of transtyping anything to either true or false.



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# File 'lib/englishest.rb', line 137

def positive?
  !!self
end

#spot(pattern) ⇒ Object Also known as: win, reach 



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# File 'lib/englishest.rb', line 170

def spot(pattern)
  $LAST_PUT_LINE =~ pattern
end