From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-01-09T00:33:32+09:00
Subject: Re: a most undangerous Hash#store!

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On 1/8/07, Mauricio Fernandez <mfp@acm.org> wrote:
>
> <snip>




Anyway, Trans was talking about destructive updates, so what about
>
>   def store?(key, value)


make that store!?  (I know you can't) because I consider an updating
predicate *dangerous*, or were you just pulling our legs ;)

    unless key?(key)
>       store(key,value)
>       return true
>     end
>     false
>   end




similar to the #store! he described, but with a more regular behavior when
> you
> have nil/false values...
>
> --
> Mauricio Fernandez  -   http://eigenclass.org   -  singular Ruby
>
>

Robert
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