> How is an empty string "no data"?

+1

In general, if I tell something to do something then it should do
something.  I hate SW that tries to be clever and override me.


On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Marco Rogers <[email protected]>wrote:

> Is that a real question? Let me repeat, I know the arguments. But consider
> it from a socket standpoint. The empty string is converted to a Buffer.
> That buffer has zero length and no bytes in it. It's reasonable for the
> underlying system to determine that there is nothing to do. The question
> I'm bringing up, and just bringing up mind you because I have no stomach to
> argue about it, is whether this reasonable assumption belongs at the level
> of the streams api.
>
> And again, I've done no research whatsoever into this. What I'm talking
> about may not even be the problem here. Just talking out loud while I avoid
> doing actual work. Please carry on.
>
> :Marco
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Marco Rogers <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure why this stopped working. But I'm also not sure why you
>>> would expect pushing no data to do something. Don't get me wrong, I
>>> understand the argument. I just don't know which behavior really makes the
>>> most sense. There's an argument that the new behavior is better.
>>>
>>
>> How is an empty string "no data"?
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