From: Yuri Leikind <yurleik@...>
Date: 2002-01-06T07:14:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30308] Re: Ruby article on Freshmeat


"Michael Joner" <finalfrontier@yahoo.com> ???????/???????? ? ????????
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> On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 19:06:58 GMT HarryO <harryo@zipworld.com.au> wrote:
>
> > That only happens if the method doesn't change the object. So, ...
> >
> >    "hello".capitalize! # => "Hello"
> >
> > whereas
> >
> >    "Hello".capitalize! # => nil
> >
> > because it was already capitalised.
>
> So what would the code be if you aren't sure whether the object has been
> capitalized or not?

IMHO,  string.capitalize  is never ambiguous, I'd prefer #method to #method!
in examples.

Yuri Leikind