From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-06-02T11:51:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Method Chaining Issues

Kyle Heon wrote:
> 
> I'm new to Ruby so I when you refer to a "bang" method you mean something
> like "chomp!"? And if so, why do some thing they shouldn't exist? Just
> curious.
> 

Oops, failed to address the other half of that.

The ! usually (not always) indicates that a method changes its
receiver "in place" rather than creating a new object as a result.

I gather that functional programming people dislike this -- but I
have never used a real FP language (such as Haskell?).


Hal