Empty means that it has no elements.
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On Monday, July 9, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Michael Boutros wrote:
> Geoff,
>
> But from the Rails documentation: An object is blank if it’s false, empty, or
> a whitespace string. For example, “”, “ ”, nil, [], and {} are all blank.
> That's why I think an array full of false, empty, or whitespace strings
> should be empty.
>
> - Michael
>
> On Monday, July 9, 2012 10:18:04 AM UTC-4, Geoff Harcourt wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > That array isn't blank, empty strings aren't the same as nils. I think
> > changing that behavior would be confusing. If you don't want to count those
> > elements, it's probably best to filter the array for non-blank strings.
> >
> > -Geoff
> >
> >
> > --
> > Geoff Harcourt
> >
> >
> > On Monday, July 9, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Michael Boutros wrote:
> >
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > 1.9.3p194 :014 > "".blank?
> > > => true
> > > 1.9.3p194 :015 > ["", ""].blank?
> > > => false
> > >
> > >
> > > Proposal: the second line should also produce true.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
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