From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-02-22T23:04:53+09:00
Subject: Re: destructive! operations

On Feb 21, 2005, at 5:10 PM, Hal Fulton wrote:
> 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.

ditto - foo.gsub!(...).gsub!(...).gsub!(...).damn.