From: Daniel Bye <ruby@...>
Date: 2010-07-07T22:24:22+09:00
Subject: Re: New, but this seems odd...

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On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 10:01:35PM +0900, Andrew Wagner wrote:
> Ok, granted that I'm pretty new to ruby, but this seems odd to me:
>=20
> irb(main):001:0> x =3D [1,2,3]
> =3D> [1, 2, 3]
> irb(main):002:0> x.delete 2
> =3D> 2
> irb(main):003:0> x
> =3D> [1, 3]
>=20
> With this behavior, wouldn't "delete!" be a more appropriate name?

This came up a few days ago:

9857c220286cc01c05bd3fc163a7654a@ruby-forum.com

David A. Black's answer covers it nicely, I think.

Dan

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