From: Stefan Walk <stefan.walk@...>
Date: 2006-01-29T07:46:41+09:00
Subject: Re: nil != []

Alex Polite wrote:
> Well I do understand that it's a convention. They same is true for a
> lot of things. Like the positioning of gas and break pedals in cars.
> It's just a convention. But when GM puts a new car in the market they
> don't swap them. My question is why the constructors of Ruby did?
> alex

When you get used to it, it's quite handy. Some methods return integers, 
and false values on failures. If 0 was false, you'd have to distinguish 
between 0 and false/nil when checking for success.

Regards,
Stefan