From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-07-13T18:10:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Updating GUIs

Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> wrote:
> 
> > Is there some Ruby idiom for going through every element in an array
> > and destructively changing the values in it?  Using collect! didn't
> > seem to help at all.
> 
> Well, that *is* how you destructively change each element.

No, that's how you destructively change the *array*. You're still
discarding and creating objects within it. To destructively change the
elements you have to say array.collect! {|e| e.bang_method!}

martin