From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-02-22T23:34:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal for nil, 0, and "" in an if statement

On Feb 22, 2005, at 7:18 AM, David A. Black wrote:
> 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 :-)

Aye, it is arguably so. But I think having a method name of
	my_var.is_super_special_because_it_is_so_boring?
might be annoying to type ;)


> I'm not sold on this anyway.

I'm confused, which are you not sold on - the name "vapid" or the 
concept of adding a common method across many objects that supports the 
use cases where you need to treat their 'empty' values the same?