From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-10-07T02:59:11+09:00
Subject: Re: nil being empty

On 10/6/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's the best example I have yet seen. Thanks for that Ara. Yet
> there's still a problem. Your expecting a NoMethodError on nil, just
> like I said. That's the thing, there's no other possible issue involved
> here. Now I'll grant James' concern that it can make some bugs harder
> to track down, but if that's our primary concern then I suggest we get
> back to static typing.

If I'm expecting to call #empty? I'm expecting to call it on something
where it's meaningful.

What is 0.empty? 1.empty? -1.empty? If I allow nil.empty? why do I not
want Fixnum#empty?

Nil isn't empty: nil just isn't. (As someone else said, one's spoon
can't be empty if one doesn't have a spoon.)

-austin
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