From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-07-21T23:02:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Little query


"Michael Neumann" <mneumann@ntecs.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:40FE7141.6050809@ntecs.de...
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In message "Re: Little query"
> >     on 04/07/21, Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> writes:
> >
> > |Is there any chance that
> > |
> > |class Array
> > |    def first=(v)
> > |        self[0] = v
> > |    end
> > |
> > |    def last=(v)
> > |        self[-1] = v
> > |    end
> > |end
> > |
> > |might become part of the core? matz?
> >
> > I'm not enthusiastic for them.  I feel like that they are not as
> > useful as, "push" method for example.
>
> Me too. Then, there should be also Range#last= and Range#first=, but I
> don't like them too much.

IMHO Range is a different cup of tea because Ranges are immutable.  So
assigning would not be approrpiate here.

    robert