I like to do that in Ruby. It just reads so natural: $x = foo() unless $y > 10 As with any language feature, you can over-use it, but in general once I was

I like to do that in Ruby. It just reads so natural: $x = foo() unless $y > 10 As with any language feature, you can over-use it, but in general once I was used to it I missed it in every other programming language.