Hi --

I see that symbols now have an #empty? method, but an empty symbol
literal is still illegal:

irb(main):004:0> :"".empty?
SyntaxError: (irb):4: empty symbol literal
:"".empty?

It can be done with "".intern.empty? but that seems kind of
roundabout. Should :"" perhaps be allowed now?


David

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