From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-02-23T00:26:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal for nil, 0, and "" in an if statement

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:24:18 +0900, Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> wrote:
> David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> >> Here is a proposal for evaluating "", 0, and nil in an if statement:
> > I'd be pretty happy to see that happen. It would make especially Ruby in
> > view logic a lot easier to deal with.
> But please please use a different name than "empty?", maybe "nothing?"
> or "something?" or whatever else.

I think it was a joke, but why not #vapid? -- it came from the spawning thread.

-austin
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