From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-09-01T18:26:08+09:00
Subject: Re: "destructiveness" of delete

Hi,

In message ""destructiveness" of delete"
    on 04/08/31, "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:

|I know there's no Array#delete! because "delete" already
|implies in-place change.  But I recently noticed that
|there is a String#delete! as well as String#delete.  Just
|wondering why, or whether these behaviors will be unified.

Just because they are different, probably they had different origins
that unfortunately slept away from my brain.  I didn't feel strings
and arrays were similar no more than they both had [] and each,
and I still don't.

							matz.