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Re: LIST "bug": .Remove on an empty list [message #74014 is a reply to message #74002]

Fri, 17 December 2010 10:03

penteado
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On Dec 17, 3:37 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Paulo Penteado writes:
>> And I find "if (~l) then ..." much more convenient than "if
>> (l.isempty()) then ...".
>
> IsEmpty has the value, of course, of letting you know what
> you were thinking months ago when you wrote the darn program. :-)

I would still say the same for the test of the object's truth value.
Other modern languages have used this for a while, and it is a common
convention that empty containers are false if empty, true otherwise.

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		LIST "bug": .Remove on an empty list By: Matt Haffner on Mon, 13 December 2010 11:53
		Re: LIST "bug": .Remove on an empty list By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 17 December 2010 10:12
		Re: LIST "bug": .Remove on an empty list By: penteado on Fri, 17 December 2010 10:03
		Re: LIST "bug": .Remove on an empty list By: David Fanning on Fri, 17 December 2010 09:37
		Re: LIST "bug": .Remove on an empty list By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 15 December 2010 09:22

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