From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-09-03T00:51:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20708] Re: RCR: non-bang equivalent to []=

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:20675] RCR: non-bang equivalent to []="
    on 01/09/02, Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> writes:

|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:

Since we have "slice" for non destructive "[]", I think it's OK to
have non destructive "[]=", if (and only if) we can define good name
for the operation.  I don't feel good for either "set_at", "set_at!",
nor "at()=".

							matz.