From: Martin Coxall <pseudo.meta@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T17:46:25+09:00
Subject: Re: question mark at end of method name

> Paul Lutus wrote:
> > .empty? means "is it empty?". It tries to suggest that a question is being
> > asked. It's unfortunate that the "!" syntax, which seems similar, actually
> > means "apply the result to the present object."
>
>
> thanks....couldn't find that in the documentation I've read so far.

That's almost certainly because it's a convention rather than a
feature of the language. Generally, conventions of languages tend to
be less well documented, because they change over time.

Martin