From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-03-14T00:55:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: String#notempty?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bertram Scharpf [mailto:lists@bertram-scharpf.de] 
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 2:34 AM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Proposal: String#notempty?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am Montag, 13. M�r 2006, 17:41:21 +0900 schrieb nobu@ruby-lang.org:
> > At Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:56:05 +0900,
> > Bertram Scharpf wrote in [ruby-core:07518]:
> > > I oftenly use `Numeric#nonzero?'. Actually, I miss its 
> equivalent, a 
> > > method maybe `String#notempty?', [...]
> > 
> > Isn't nonempty but notempty?
> 
> It should probably be, for consistency.
> 
> Bertram

Not needed:

unless string.empty?

For something like this you can just use Ruby's open classes:

class String
   def not_empty?
      !empty?
   end
end

Regards,

Dan