From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-09-04T22:46:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20864] Re: RCR: non-bang equivalent to []=

Tobias Reif wrote:
> Do you have a feasible idea, solution, concept, or suggestion?
> 
> Maybe something backwards-compatible for Ruby 1 or 2;
> 
> or just a set of conventions/rules for new public methods in public 
> classes and libraries.

I am not sure if this would help out here. Perhaps it'd be even worse; new
libraries would use a different convention than the standard libraries. 
Then you mix both conventions in your code and mess it totally up. 

> Maybe:
> 
> All methods that are bang (that are working with and possibly modifying 
> the original(s)) have an '!' appended to their name.

But this will not be compatible. Array#delete, #fill and all the others 
must be changed to the bang version. Any change to existing method names
will break code. A  solution would be to introduce #delete! etc..
that are just an alias to #delete. But this would break IMO PoLP. 

Regards,

  Michael

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