From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-06-23T08:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: In 1.8.0 nil.to_s is not the same as ""

Hi,

In message "Re: In 1.8.0 nil.to_s is not the same as """
    on 03/06/23, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca> writes:

|If you want to save memory, then instead of pointing to NULL, it could be
|pointed to a global buffer containing only a \0, e.g.:
|
|const char *const rb_str_empty = "";
|
|[...]
|RSTRING(str)->ptr = rb_str_empty;
|
|or something like that.

Thank you.  Actually, it's exactly what I did.

							matz.