From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-07-08T03:50:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Pre-RCR... nil.empty?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Thomas" <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: Pre-RCR... nil.empty?


> It's a bit like the story of laying out the paths in the newly
> constructed campus. The architect said "don't lay any concrete
> paths. Just cover all the area between the buildings with grass." A
> year later, the grass had worn to show where people actually walked,
> and that's where they then poured the paths.

And carrying the analogy a bit further, things sometimes
get a bit muddy before they are made concrete.

Hal Fulton