From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-09-11T02:05:19+09:00
Subject: Re: How to do foo.chomp!.rstrip!.downcase! ?

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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sep 10, 2010, at 11:28 AM, ara.t.howard wrote:
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> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> ...it seems like I should be able to do:
> >>
> >> foo.chomp!.rstrip!.downcase!
> >>
> >
> > you can.
> >
> > %w( chomp! rstrip! downcase! ).each{|m| foo.send(m)}
> >
> > -a
> >
>
> So... what's wrong with:
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> foo = foo.chomp.rstrip.downcase
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> Jason
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>
What is the rationale behind having them return nil if unchanged?

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