Do you think anyone currently uses #blank? on enumerables in its current 
state? It doesn't make sense the way it is right now. Imagine a piece of 
paper with a list of 10 blank lines. Wouldn't you call that a blank list?

On Monday, July 9, 2012 10:50:34 AM UTC-4, Xavier Noria wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Michael Boutros <michael.bout...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> Yes.
>
>
> Your implementation makes sense. I mean, I believe that if blank? was 
> defined on enumerables as all?(&:blank?) from the very first day, one could 
> have accepted that definition just fine.
>
> But the current definition also makes sense to me.
>
> Since this is a fundamental predicate in Active Support that has had this 
> semantic since forever, this modification would be backwards incompatible, 
> and the current definition is also just fine in my opinion, I think we 
> should keep it the way it is.
>
>

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