Converting nil

November 2, 2008

Check C,C++,Java, JavaScript or any other langugage which treats “nil” as something different–probably a meaning equivalent to “a person having 5 hands”. But in Ruby you may use

nil.to_s —>> “0″

nil.to_i —->> 0

Is this really breaking the original stream of programming languages?

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