From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-02-22T00:04:16+09:00
Subject: Re: destructive! operations

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:54:42 +0900, Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:
> "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:9e7db91105022106401bd2e5e@mail.gmail.com...
> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 06:07:58 +0900, Navindra Umanee
> > <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca > wrote:
> > > Often think it would be nice if "" and 0 were treated like nil.  Such
> > > functions could then return "".  Heck, NilClass.to_s and NilClass.to_i
> > > already return "" and 0 respectively.
> > I'm far happier that they aren't.
> I didn't miss this "feature" either.  I suspect that an unfinished
> transition from Perl to Ruby makes people voice such whishes... :-)

Or C++/Java to Ruby (not the "", but definitely the 0). I *have* been
bitten by 0/false problems in translations, but very few.

-austin
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