checking if a list is empty

Hans Georg Schaathun hg at schaathun.net
Thu May 12 01:21:28 EDT 2011


On 11 May 2011 21:47:27 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
  <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
:  On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:13:35 +0100, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
: > One principle of object oriented programming is to bestow the objects
: > with properties reflecting known properties from the domain being
: > modelled.  Lists do not have truth values in the application domain
: 
:  Yes they do. Empty lists are nothing, ergo false, and non-empty lists are 
:  something, ergo true.

What application domain has established that terminology?

-- 
:-- Hans Georg



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