From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-11-05T23:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/GD2 alternative to Ruby/GD

Hi,

In message "Re: [ANN] Ruby/GD2 alternative to Ruby/GD"
    on Sat, 5 Nov 2005 23:08:32 +0900, Rob Leslie <rob@mars.org> writes:

|> I don't think resize! and find! do not require bang sign in the  
|> name. Note that, unlike Scheme, bang sign indicates "more  
|> dangerous" alternatives to non bang ones in Ruby, for example, sub  
|> (returns modified copy of the receiver) and sub! (modifies the  
|> receiver in place).
|
|Actually, I was conscious of this; the non-bang Image#resize does not  
|modify the receiver but returns a new image instead. Also,  
|Palette#find never modifies the palette, but Palette#find! allocates  
|the color if it doesn't already exist.

Hmm, I should have checked the API before making comments, sorry.  But
I still feel something weird with find!, but I can't express myself well.

							matz.