From: Philipp Kempgen <lists@...>
Date: 2010-08-15T18:37:06+09:00
Subject: Re: kind_of?( NilClass )

David Masover schrieb (am 15.8.10 07:58):
> On Saturday, August 14, 2010 03:10:28 pm Philipp Kempgen wrote:
>> Steve Klabnik wrote:
>> > You can always var.nil?
>> 
>> Well, yes if the var is a kind_of?(Object) but not if
>> it's just a BasicObject.
> 
> The purpose of a BasicObject is, generally, to implement proxy classes. 
> Presumably, this would send a nil? through to whatever you were proxying, 
> right?
> 
> Also, I don't see a kind_of? on BasicObject, either, so calling pretty much 
> anything on var would fail.

Right.

I guess I'll stick with
	! var
or
	not var
which is what Ryan suggested and which is about twice as fast as
any one of
	! var.nil?()
	! var.eql?(nil)
	! nil.eql?(var)
	! var.kind_of?(NilClass)


Regards,
  Philipp