From: aidy <aidy.rutter@...>
Date: 2006-09-11T23:25:36+09:00
Subject: string as nil or empty string?

Hi,

With everything in Ruby being an object, should a string be initialised
as an empty string

e.g. 

a_string = ""

or nil

e.g 

a_string = nil 

cheers

aidy