From: "Benjamin J. Tilly" <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2001-04-24T04:55:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14103] Re: Negative Reviews for Ruby and ProgrammingRuby

>===== Original Message From Paul Prescod <paulp@ActiveState.com> =====
[...]There is one and only one
>string in Python that is false and it is the empty string. There is
>typically no way for "user data" to generate an empty string (how do you
>type an empty string!) so it is quite safe to use it as a false value.
[...]

I would need to look closely at Python, but in most languages
you can get a string of no length by feeding it an eof when
it expects to read user input.

So there is typically a way for users to do that, and when
data is coming from a file it can even happen accidentally.

Cheers,
Ben