From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-05-25T23:23:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Numeric#of

Hi --

Gavin Kistner <gavin@refinery.com> writes:

> 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.

I put the little note over on the right in the hope of pre-answering
this :-)  

! in a method names alerts you to danger (which often, but not always,
involves a modification to the receiver).  I thought maybe the
accumulation of results would be alert-worthy, since you'd want to
avoid it, for performance reasons, unless you were sure that's what
you wanted.


David

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David A. Black
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