From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2007-11-19T19:29:05+09:00
Subject: Re: wondering about #tap (was: Re: Thoughts about Array#compact!, Array#flatten!, Array#reject!, String#strip!, String#capitalize!, String#gsub!, etc.)

On Nov 16, 2007 6:12 PM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 16, 11:29 am, "Nikolai Weibull" <n...@bitwi.se> wrote:
> > On Nov 16, 2007 3:19 PM, David A. Black <dbl...@rubypal.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'd rather see:
> >
> > >    str.downcase!
> > >    str.split...
> >
> > Not the first time that I complain about this, but I'd rather see:
> >
> > str.downcase.split...
>
> dont you mean?
>
>   str.downcase!.split...

I was way too sloppy.  It should have been

str = str.downcase.split....

That is, I don't like the mutating versions.