From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T02:57:44+09:00
Subject: Re: value by reference

> > See my earlier posting about the lambda { } and Variable[:name] ways of
> > doing this.
> 
> Sorry, but I can't believe anybody would actually want to use the lambda
> styles as proposed.  They are ugly and obscure

Rightly so. I can't see any reason for .succ! to exist, really, and
only very rarely use !versions of methods anyway. The functional style
has kept a lot of bugs out of my programs.