From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-09-04T03:35:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20800] Re: RCR: non-bang equivalent to []=

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:20780] Re: RCR: non-bang equivalent to []="
    on 01/09/03, Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> writes:

|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!

Like scheme?  But imagine that every destructive (in other words, self
modifying) method has ! in its name, Ruby programs would be filled
with bangs.  It might be informative, but let's face it, it's ugly.

							matz.