[#1263] Draft of the updated Ruby FAQ — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

33 messages 2000/02/08

[#1376] Re: Scripting versus programming — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

Conrad writes:

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[#1508] Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Ian Main <imain@...>

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[#1544] Re: Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Yasushi Shoji <yashi@...> 2000/02/23

Hello Ian,

[#1550] Re: Ruby/GTK and the mainloop — Ian Main <imain@...> 2000/02/23

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 02:56:10AM -0500, Yasushi Shoji wrote:

[#1516] Ruby: PLEASE use comp.lang.misc for all Ruby programming/technical questions/discussions!!!! — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>

((FYI: This was sent to the Ruby mail list.))

10 messages 2000/02/19

[#1569] Re: Ruby: constructors, new and initialise — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article

12 messages 2000/02/25

[ruby-talk:01605] Re: destructive methods

From: "Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@...>
Date: 2000-02-28 00:08:43 UTC
List: ruby-talk #1605
From: Masato KIYAMA <masato@csys.ce.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp>

> Hi,
>
> > destructive methods : why some destructive
> >  methods have an '!' and not other.
>
> '!' don't express destructive.
> The sign ! expresses careful or more dangerous in Ruby.

Are all predicate methods denoted by having a '?'?

Is there any reason that all mutator methods should not be denoted by having
a '!'?

Seems like it would be a good idea WRT principle of least surprise, etc.

(There might be backwards compatibility problems with changing old methods,
but '!' versions of old methods could still be added, and all new mutator
methods could be required to use '!'.)

Conrad

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