From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-09-04T00:53:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20786] Re: RCR: non-bang equivalent to []=

Hello --

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Tobias Reif wrote:

> Kevin,
> 
> 
> > 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!

Except... each and every method would include #max, #first, #last, and
some others where the bang/non-bang distinction wouldn't be
meaningful.

Unless you mean that you think that every method should have a version
where it operates on a copy.... but there can't be any point in
copying an array as a side effect of, say, determining its first
element.


David

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