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Why not just ifnot? Same count of characters but an o instead of a possibly problematic single quote.
I think it's just capitalizing on a trend to add n't to otherwise noy contractions, to make them into contractions. Contractionn'ts, if you will
Yes... how is "reducing exclamation marks" a good thing when you do it by adding a
'(not to be confused with,´,‘or’` ..which are all different characters).Does this rely on the assumption that everyone uses a US QWERTY keyboard where
!happens to be slightly more inconvenient than typing'?If someone really wanted to add it, probably the best would be to use
unlessI really liked having
unlessin Ruby; a!can be easy to miss, whileunlessmade it clear without needing to write out!= true.It's also cool when you do unless(!condition). I particularly like this.