# Re: Object#to\_b

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-object-to-b/67629>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 17, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-object-to-b/67629 "2005-11-17T01:50:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![daniels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@daniels](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daniels)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-object-to-b/67629/1 "2005-11-17T01:50:58Z")

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> Unless somebody can come up with a decent use-case, I’d say  
> that we just change the if evaluations to also allow  
> subclasses of FalseClass and NilClass (which will all be just  
> singletons as they don’t have new). Or change if to look at  
> nil? to determine whether it’s true or not.

That was meant to be “If somebody can…”

Unless, or course the use-cases present a stronger case for to\_b.  
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