From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-10-10T14:45:55+09:00
Subject: Re: nil being empty

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On 10/10/06, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
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> Robert Dober wrote:
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> > Hal said "nil.empty? =3D> true =3D=3D=3D bad idea"
> > I thaught that he should have said  "nil.respond_to? :empty? =3D=3D=3D =
bad
> idea"
> > (regardeless of what I think about that matter).
>
> Yes, that is what I meant and should have said.


Yeah but it was completely clear, save for nubies but it was not a nuby
thread, yet I had to make a stupid remark, and *lots* of noise :(

Of course, even then nil.empty? doesn't return true... or false...
> it raises an exception.  ;)
>
> So it's still true to say that it doesn't return true.
>
> This is like the Zen master asking the novice when the fire went out,
> did it go to the east, west, north, or south?


Good one, I gotta translate that one,  that is quite a challenge

Hal
>
>

Robert
--=20
Deux choses sont infinies : l'univers et la b=EAtise humaine ; en ce qui
concerne l'univers, je n'en ai pas acquis la certitude absolue.

- Albert Einstein

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