The sound of that metaphor is rather pleasing ('sweet nothings'), but I'm not so sure that metaphors belong in computer science and programming. Nothing can't have many shapes. Having no onions is the same as having no carrots.
Not if you need onions but not carrots it isn't! -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeeste Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list