From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-07-07T13:51:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Pre-RCR... nil.empty?

TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@rubycolor.org> writes:

> In generally (especially in database), NULL and empty string
> are not the same. So we should be careful to deal with nil.

Agreed, but having 'nil' respond true to empty? means I can do

   fred.empty?

and

   fred.nil?

so I don't lose anything. I seems that having to convert something to
a string to save a test is slightly wasteful... :)


Cheers


Dave