From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack@...>
Date: 2009-12-21T22:41:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:27269] Re: select!

> In message "Re: [ruby-core:27242] select!"
> � �on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:22:11 +0900, Roger Pack <rogerdpack@gmail.com> writes:
>
> |Is there any reason there's no select!
>
> Enumerables cannot have bang method, since they are not always
> mutable. �The reason we don't have Array#select! is that I feel the
> word select means picking up elements, not removing non-selecting
> elements. �But I once felt same way to map! and (English speaking)
> people persuaded me, so same thing could happen on select! as well.

I'm all for it.

-r