From: Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...>
Date: 2009-10-02T11:34:38+09:00
Subject: Re: how do you do this

On Oct 1, 8:27 pm, Josh Cheek <josh.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...@zenspider.com> wrote:
> > *) calling (almost) any bang method on a temporary value is usually a bug.
>
> Why is that?

What's the point of calling a bang method there? You don't care at all
about the object you're mutating, and it seems like a blatant case of
premature optimization.

Now, consider the specific cases where the bang method doesn't return
the same value as the non-bang (viz. uniq!).

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-yossef