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by brabarossa 1286 days ago
>It reads like natural English

That's a problem for those who learn it as a second language and have to translate "unless" to "if not" every single time.

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Don’t you know the word after awhile? Ruby core and standard libraries have many English words in them that are harder to learn than basic one-syllable words on the level of “if not.”