transparent_nil 0.1.4 → 0.1.5
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- data/README.txt +14 -4
- data/lib/transparent_nil.rb +1 -1
- metadata +1 -1
data/README.txt
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@@ -7,17 +7,27 @@ nil values can be quite annoying. Although it is a nice error indicator but you'
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gets ugly with too many conditional statements that handle the nil case.
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TransparentNil defines some methods for +nil+ so nil values behave like any other object. Most of them return just nil, but some are different:
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nil.dup
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=> nil
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nil[2]
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=> nil
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=> true
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nil << [element]
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nil.split(//)
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Think +nil+ als "nothing". You can ask for nil if you need to, but you don't have to do it so often.
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data/lib/transparent_nil.rb
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