From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-12-23T01:03:15+09:00
Subject: Re: select!

2009/12/15 Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com>:
> Is there any reason there's no select!
> (and I am familiar with compact! but still...)
>
> C:\>ruby -e 'puts [].methods.grep /reject/'
> reject
> reject!
>
> C:\>ruby -e 'puts [].methods.grep /select/'
> select

Maybe Matz felt that using "select" to actually _delete_ from an Array
would be considered weird.  And indeed, we have #delete, #delete_at
and #delete_if:

irb(main):001:0> Array.instance_methods.grep /delete/
=> [:delete, :delete_at, :delete_if]
irb(main):002:0>

:-)

Kind regards

robert

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