From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-06-12T03:23:02+09:00
Subject: Re: each with else

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Martin I think you did not read my reply reagrding this technique, it
> is funny though that you want to define Object#is_empty, I would say
> that the Ruby way would be Object#empty?

I did - mine is different in that it doesn't require explicit use of
the built-in control structures like if/else or and

> I gave an implementation for Enumerable#empty? using #last, this was
> an error because there is no Enumerable#last, I tested with Range
> only.
>
> But the point is that I started to think about "emptiness" as a concept.

Yep, I was exploring the other half of the coin - how to make the most
convenient use of empty? once defined.

martin