Regardless of the merit (I don't have a strong opinion on what is "correct" 
here), it's 100% too big of a breaking change and it's gonna break a lot of 
people's app in some subtle but potentially very dangerous ways.


-100 for me 

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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Amitav Mohanty <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hey
> I initially posted this idea on Github where I was suggested by Steve to 
> post it here. The idea is as follows.
> With the current definition of blank? as defined in 
> https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/2a371368c91789a4d689d6a84eb20b238c37678a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/blank.rb#L16
>  
> false.present? returns false. The documentation mentions it clearly too. 
> However, I was of the opinion that a value of false is still a value and 
> there probably should return true when checked for presence.
> When an array is empty, it does not contain any valid values and thus is 
> blank. However, false is a valid value for a boolean variable. So, probably 
> false.present? should not be false.
> This is of course just my opinion. I know I can always check for nil?. If 
> there are valid scenarios where false.present? returning a value of false 
> is useful/intuitive, I would be glad to know.
> I have explained 
> at 
> http://intosimple.blogspot.in/2013/05/rails-falsepresent-being-false-is-not.html
>  one 
> scenario where I thought false.present? returning true would have been more 
> intuitive. Please have a look and let me know your ideas.
> Thanks and regards,
> Amitav
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