From: Christian von Kleist <cvonkleist@...>
Date: 2007-12-05T04:31:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Why are "Array#push" and "pop" not "push!" and "pop!"?

On Dec 4, 2007 1:04 PM, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
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> From: "David A. Black" <dblack@rubypal.com>
> >
> > [...] I just
> > think that Matz's abstraction of these as "dangerous", and dedication
> > of the ! to expressing that abstraction, is strikingly elegant and has
> > the weight of some kind of logic behind it. It hits a narrower target
> > -- it means that there's a whole class of tricky (or whatever) methods
> > that have to find some other way to express their trickiness -- but I
> > think it's worth it.
>
> Ah.  I think I understand your viewpoint better now; thanks.
>
> (And if nothing else, at least we can both agree on the "hits a
> narrower target" part.  <grin> )
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> Regards,
>
> Bill
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Well, slice(-1) and slice!(-1) are equivalents for pop (non-modifying)
and pop! (modifying), right?