From: Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@...>
Date: 2005-03-17T09:16:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Great Computer Language Shootout

> But "a".downcase! => nil ... And the same with most !-methods (they return
> nil when nothing was changed).

That always bothered me, since I lose my method chaining with !
methods. Like this:

line.strip!.downcase!

must be

line.strip.downcase

to work properly. But then you lose some efficiency.

I'd prefer that ! methods returned 'self'. In the *rare* case that I
need to know if something changed, I'll use == or something. RCR in
the making?

Dan