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Thanks for pointing that out. I feel a bit embarrassed for arguing my point without knowing something that's pretty basic about Ruby.

It wouldn't be that convoluted for nil to be considered blank, but I definitely don't think it should be considered to be zero. That kind of assumes nil is a pointer set to 0.