JuliaLang/julia — pull request #5827 by stevengj (2014-02-16 00:02:12+00:00)
Title: RFC make isempty(itr) work for general iterables

As mentioned in #5797, it would be nice if `isempty(itr)` worked for general iterable collections. The patch to implement this is trivial, and I don't see a downside to this.