From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2005-03-17T09:41:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Great Computer Language Shootout

It's been suggested many times.  I agree, but my vote hardly counts.  =)


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:16:26 +0900, Daniel Amelang
<daniel.amelang@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> 
>