From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-09-02T02:33:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20676] Re: RCR: non-bang equivalent to []=

Hello --

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Tobias Reif wrote:

> Hi,
>
> RCR:
>
> I'm rying to modify specific items in a nested array, without modifying
> the original.
> I tried some variations, but most things that come to mind failed.
> There are ways to achive what I want (I found some hack that works for me),
> but I believe it would be good for the ease of use to introduce the
> following:
>
> #
>
> []= is bang;
> so
> a version of []= that doesn't modify the receiver
> would be cool.


I'm sorry -- I don't understand.  What exactly is supposed to happen?

  a = [1,2,3,4]
  a.non_bang_set(0) = 100
  a                      # => [1,2,3,4]

?


David

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