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>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.




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.”




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