Ruby 2.4 deprecated constants TRUE, FALSE & NIL

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Akshay Vishnoi

June 19, 2017

This blog is part of our  Ruby 2.4 series.

Ruby has top level constants like TRUE, FALSE and NIL. These constants are just synonyms for true, false and nil respectively.

In Ruby 2.4, these constants are deprecated and will be removed in future version.

# Ruby 2.3

2.3.1 :001 > TRUE
 => true
2.3.1 :002 > FALSE
 => false
2.3.1 :003 > NIL
 => nil
# Ruby 2.4

2.4.0 :001 > TRUE
(irb):1: warning: constant ::TRUE is deprecated
 => true
2.4.0 :002 > FALSE
(irb):2: warning: constant ::FALSE is deprecated
 => false
2.4.0 :003 > NIL
(irb):3: warning: constant ::NIL is deprecated
 => nil

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