From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-09-09T06:53:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Combine @item.foo.nil? || @item.foo.empty? ?

Matthew Moss wrote:
>> tr do
>>   td @item.foo
>> end unless (@item.foo.nil? || @item.foo.empty?)
>>
>> Is there a way to combine these two OR clauses into one?
> 
> 
> Define a method on the class of foo?
> 
> class Foo
         ^^^
         Object
>   def nil_or_empty?
>      return nil? || empty?
>   end
> end

Otherwise it won't be defined when foo==nil.

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