From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-07-07T22:58:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Pre-RCR... nil.empty?

David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:

> But you could also argue that there's an element of chance or
> coincidence here.  Going back to your original problem, it's true that
> cgi.params["param"][0] could be either nil or "", and that both of
> those are unacceptable.  But nil and "" crop up, in this context, for
> different reasons: nil indicates no param named "param", while ""
> indicates an existent but zero-length value.

Of course, in a pure sense you're right.

But if you ever wrote a decent sized web application in Ruby, you
might change your mind :)



Dave