From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-10-16T05:52:03+09:00
Subject: Re: nil.to_i returning zero

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 05:39:39AM +0900, Gerardo Santana G?mez Garrido wrote:
> 
> Let me just precise that I'm ok with nil.to_s.
> 
> It's nil.to_i I'm uncomfortable with

Why the difference?  Doesn't "" (the output of nil.to_s) evaluate to
true in a boolean context, too?

  > irb
  irb(main):001:0> foo = nil.to_s
  => ""
  irb(main):002:0> puts "true" if foo
  true
  => nil

That seems to be the exact same problem cited for nil.to_i, as far as I
can tell.

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