From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2004-05-25T22:29:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Numeric#of

On May 25, 2004, at 5:08 AM, David Alan Black wrote:
> A couple of ideas:
>   1. Integer#collect   # maybe too vague
>   2. Integer#times!    # ! as a warning that results are accumulating

Don't method names ending in ! imply that the receiver is being 
modified.
(Do any methods exist in the core/standard which are so named, but 
which do not modify the receiver?)

It would be foolish to think that
	3.times! { ... }
could modify the integer 3, but that's what the second suggestion says 
to me (despite being a nice attempt at an end-run around the 
performance problem of accumulating while only wanting to iterate).

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