From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2007-12-04T22:45:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Why are "Array#push" and "pop" not "push!" and "pop!"?

> just means that the whole thing
> becomes method-name soup and has *no* meaning.

That is not true. I agree that it should not be used
in other ways than how pretty everyone else uses it.

However, it does not have *no* meaning anymore, it
simply has a *different* meaning now. If you want to
use it (i.e define this different meaning) and how
you want to use it, is up to you - for example,
you could do something like:

  def nuke!
    FileUtils.rm_rf /playing_games_during_worktime # boss coming in!
  end

And you would still be aware that the method does
something dangerous.

I used to do this years ago, until I later found out
I hated to be surprised by methods with ! which
behave differently ;-)
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