From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-11-02T18:26:48+09:00
Subject: Re: get method name when aliasing


On Nov 2, 2010, at 02:13 , Rahul Kumar wrote:

> I might land up having quite a lot of such methods, so i'd rather not
> make multiple methods with "!" calling the original ones.

Why not? What's wrong with that? And if you're just at "might", why are you bothering?

I guess I should also point out that generally it is the non-bang methods that call the bang versions:

class String
  def strip!
    # mutate accordingly
  end

  def strip
    self.dup.strip!
  end
end

I don't see anything wrong with that implementation. It is easy to understand and doesn't carry the ridiculous overhead of overly clevar code.