On Aug 22, 2006, at 1:36 PM, John Johnson wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:56:17 -0400, Daniel Berger  
> <djberg96 / gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> nobu / ruby-lang.org wrote:
>> Dir.bitbucket
>> Dir.devnull
>> Dir.null_device
>> Dir.null
>> Dir.black_hole
>>
>> I guess I'm leaning towards Dir.null_device in terms of most  
>> technically descriptive.  It doesn't quite roll off the tongue as  
>> nicely as "bitbucket", though. :)
>
> How about:
>
> oblivion = File.open(nil, 'w')
>
> Seems intuitive.
>

For what definition of intuitive? nil is not a path, it's not even a  
string that could represent a path.

> Regards,
>   JJ
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