From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-07-01T22:16:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Making a random string

Hi --

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Eleanor McHugh wrote:

> On 1 Jul 2009, at 12:44, David A. Black wrote:
>> I don't think the distinction is between success and failure, though.
>> (str="ABC").upcase! succeeds -- it just doesn't change str. (I'm not a
>> huge fan of the nil returns either, by the way.)
>> 
>> Of course there's always:
>>
>>  str = "ABC"
>>  str.tap(&:upcase!)
>> 
>> :-)
>
> I'm still adjusting to these 1.9 conveniences ;)

I'm still very skeptical about #tap. I can invent use cases for it but
I don't think I've ever seen a situation where I'd actually use it.


David

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