From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-05-25T22:42:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Numeric#of

Gavin Kistner wrote:
> 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?)

There is at least exit! and I think one or two others.

Matz has said that the ! signifies danger in general.

> 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).

It's starting to become unreadable IMO.


Hal