From: Phillip Gawlowski <pg@...>
Date: 2009-12-23T05:13:50+09:00
Subject: Re: select!

On 22.12.2009 17:29, Roger Pack wrote:

> His words:
>
>> Enumerables cannot have bang method, since they are not always
>> mutable.  The reason we don't have Array#select! is that I feel the
>> word select means picking up elements, not removing non-selecting
>> elements.  But I once felt same way to map! and (English speaking)
>> people persuaded me, so same thing could happen on select! as well.
>
> So yes but hopefully I can change his mind :)

The second "SELECT * FROM TABLE" deletes the records I want to retrieve 
from a DBMS, I agree with you. ;)

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Phillip Gawlowski