From: David Chelimsky <dchelimsky@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T23:27:59+09:00
Subject: Re: nil being empty

On 10/6/06, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/6/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Ohad Lutzky wrote:
> >
> > > Show of hands - who thinks this is bad form?
> > >
> > > class NilClass
> > >  def empty?; true; end
> > > end
> >
> > /me raises hand.
>
>
> I feel this being an unnecessary generalization.
> Probably it is  very often  not the best  way to  treat the problem, but
> it might as easily be the most elegant.
> Instead of raising your hand David, please speak out ;)
> Now it would be unfair to ask others for their wisdom without delivering my
> own (as small as it might be).
>
> If you define your small little NilClass monkeypatch above because you had
> nils where you expected containers, guess what I think of your code ;)

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