From: Stephen White <spwhite@...>
Date: 2001-07-13T16:19:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17774] Re: YART (Yet Another Ruby Talk)

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Martin DeMello wrote:

> From a newbie perspective,  
>    
>    array.collect! { | elem | elem += x } 
> 
> is a misleading piece of code, since you're using += for its return value
> rather than its side effect.

That would have gotten me. I had to read it again to be sure what
it was doing...

  array.collect! {|elem| elem + x }

would be clearer.

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