From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-09-04T04:51:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20808] Re: RCR: non-bang equivalent to []=

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:56 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:20780] Re: RCR: non-bang equivalent to []=


> 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!

In my opinion, Ruby programs would
look like spam then -- lots of exclamation
points.

And what about the [] method -- would you
change this to []! also?

Hal