From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2010-09-11T02:29:13+09:00
Subject: Re: How to do foo.chomp!.rstrip!.downcase! ?

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 10, 2010, at 11:28 AM, ara.t.howard wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ...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:
>
> foo = foo.chomp.rstrip.downcase

Each call creates a copy of the string, and are all discarded along
with the original except the last one.

Jesus.