From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-02-22T23:18:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal for nil, 0, and "" in an if statement

Hi --

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> On Feb 22, 2005, at 6:47 AM, Gavin Kistner wrote:
>> I would support an RCR with this proposal, under just about any method name 
>> :)
>
> As I responded in the destructive! thread, if people are opposed to the term 
> "empty?", then what about the sort of fun name of "vapid?" instead?

It's arguably exactly the opposite of what you'd want -- namely, to
point up the singularity of 0/""/etc., not their ordinariness.  37534
is more vapid than 0 :-)

I'm not sold on this anyway.  I think it would have the flavor of
"added on to the language as an afterthought".  .zero? means the
object is zero, and .empty? means a container object is empty.  I
don't think cross-breeding them retains the logic.


David

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David A. Black
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