From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-02-22T23:49:49+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 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?

Both, but I meant specifically the concept.


David

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