From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2009-10-02T11:43:32+09:00
Subject: Re: how do you do this

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On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@pobox.com>wrote:

> 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!).
>
> --
> -yossef
>
>
I see, thank you.

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