Why does `embeds_many` enforce a default of `[]`?

[josevalim]

@joey_the_snake

I’m not sure why it is empty list but it might have something to do with the fact that embeds and associations are treated very similarly. And when you attempt to preload an association it will give an empty list when none are found. This makes sense because the result of the preload is defined as a list of associations and not a nullable column.

This is it.