From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@...>
Date: 2005-02-22T00:31:42+09:00
Subject: Re: destructive! operations

Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Maybe what is more annoying, is this type of inconsistency:

irb(main):003:0> list[4..5]
=> nil
irb(main):004:0> list[0..3]
=> []

Ruby is riddled with these and IMHO it tends to make code that much
more ugly.

Cheers,
Navin.