From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2006-10-08T20:58:21+09:00
Subject: Re: nil being empty

"[...] neither Ola Bini nor Martin Fowler consider it necessarily bad
form, depending on your context, i.e. whether it adds to or detracts
from the maintainability of your code."

Surprisingly, with few exceptions, I found that in Ruby its
usually better to go very straight at a problem, and better short
than long... helped me to maintain my own code nicely.

That also means, for me though, that I do agree it is a bit awkward
to ask whether the spoon is full or empty, when there really is
no spoon. :-)

"Then by simple logic, the right solution will be to have it
return false"

I dont think you can apply a lot of logic
on nil at all. Maybe not even a simple logic. ;-)

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