From: Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@...>
Date: 2001-09-04T00:36:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20784] Re: RCR: non-bang equivalent to []=

--- Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> wrote:
> > Many of the Array methods are already bang-type
> methods,
> > even though they don't have the bang: clear, delete,
> > delete_at, delete_if, fill, pop, push, replace, shift,
> > unshift.
> 
> I'd like to have bang and non-bang versions of each and
> every method.
> The names should just differ in the !, like collect and
> collect!

If we were starting from scratch, I'd probably agree. I
think it's too late to make such a sweeping change to such
a fundamental class.

Of course, you can always implement your own SaneArray
class...

Kevin

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