aidy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With everything in Ruby being an object, should a string be initialised
> as an empty string
> 
> e.g.
> 
> a_string = ""
> 
> or nil
> 
> e.g
> 
> a_string = nil
> 
> cheers

I would recommend, whenever possible, deferring initialisation
of a String until you actually have said String :)

> aidy


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