From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@...>
Date: 2005-02-22T09:39:05+09:00
Subject: Re: destructive! operations

Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> I have always had the feeling that there were interesting use cases
> for this, but I have never known an example. :) It's a bit of behavior
> that I've just learned to accept via Matz's explanation. In short,
> I'm used to it.
> 
> This is in contrast to the fact that certain bang methods sometimes
> return nil -- that behavior I've also seen justified, and can easily
> imagine use cases, but I still have never liked it. It's one of my
> most common bugs, personally. And not once have I ever *wanted* the
> "return nil" behavior.

Ahh, good to know I'm not alone in the world!

Btw, in case anyone gets the wrong idea, all this complaining just
means I just love Ruby more. :-)

Cheers,
Navin.