From 6325fb88c5ea191d12c0cf7cd4fdd91f04a79a1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Esther W <esther.wang@airbnb.com>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 15:43:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Make behavior clearer by returning false

---
 Library/Homebrew/brew.rb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb b/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb
index 03eeb8a187..f3e40fc143 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ if ARGV == %w[--version] || ARGV == %w[-v]
 end
 
 def require?(path)
-  path ||= ""
+  return false if path.nil?
   require path
 rescue LoadError => e
   # we should raise on syntax errors but not if the file doesn't exist.