From: "Marshall T. Vandegrift" <llasram@...>
Date: 2006-09-09T23:37:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Combine @item.foo.nil? || @item.foo.empty? ?

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov writes:

> tr{ tr @item.foo } unless @item.foo.to_s.empty?

It makes sense to me that

    object.to_s.empty? # => true

should imply

    object.empty? # => true

So why not just do

    class NilClass
      def empty?; true; end
    end

?

-Marshall