From: Eliah Hecht <eliahhecht@...>
Date: 2005-03-14T09:43:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#nitems and Object#nil?

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:37:24 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto
<matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Nil is a nil is a nil.  Defining nil? to be true doesn't make
> something nil.  It's just a false predicate.

In that case, what's the point of nil?? I'm not sure what you mean by
"It's just a false predicate"; an object that returns true for nil?
doesn't seem to be false-valued. Does nil? do anything in the
language, or is it just meant to be a convient way to check if
something == nil?
-Eliah.