[TYPO3-mvc] Fluid's select view helpers and empty items

[Jeff Segars]

Hey guys,
I've got a quick question (and possible feature request) for the select 
view helper in Fluid.

In my extension, I have filters where the items within a filter are a 
set of objects (ex. create a dropdown list of authors and let the user 
filter blog posts by author). In addition to filtering by author, I need 
  a default blank value that ignores this filter completely (ex.  show 
all posts instead of filtering).

Is this something that should be built into the select view helper? 
Maybe some way to mix user defined items and those from an object? I'll 
be happy to provide a patch with a little guidance :)

Thanks,
Jeff