From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-09T23:57:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Combine @item.foo.nil? || @item.foo.empty? ?

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Marshall T. Vandegrift wrote:

> 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



   def deep_in_some_other_unrelated_code
     begin
       should_always_be_empty = buggy_method

       abort unless should_always_be_empty.empty?  # OOPS!

       transfer_four_million_euros_to_swiss_account
     rescue
       hours_of_debugging?
     ensure
       modify_builtins_with_care!
     end
   end



-a
-- 
what science finds to be nonexistent, we must accept as nonexistent; but what
science merely does not find is a completely different matter... it is quite
clear that there are many, many mysterious things.
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