From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-03-13T21:37:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#nitems and Object#nil?

Hi,

In message "Re: Array#nitems and Object#nil?"
    on Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:57:32 +0900, Eliah Hecht <eliahhecht@gmail.com> writes:

|In case I'm being unclear, if I do
|class Thing
|  def nil?
|    true
|  end
|end
|t = Thing.new
|I think it should be the case that [t, nil, 7].nitems returns 1,
|instead of 2 as it currently does.

Nil is a nil is a nil.  Defining nil? to be true doesn't make
something nil.  It's just a false predicate.

							matz.