From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-03-03T11:14:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in date.rb?

Hi,

In message "Bug in date.rb?"
    on 03/03/03, Child <child@t9.ds.pwr.wroc.pl> writes:

|So I can't compare a date with nil, because I get an error. Instead I
|have to write something like date.instance_of? NilClass, which is
|something unnecessary complicated.
|
|Why is this implemented this way?

Why do you want to compare date with nil, when nil <=> date raises
NoMethodError?  Although it is better complied to other part of Ruby,
if it returns nil instead of raising exception.

							matz.