From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2011-01-19T05:01:11+09:00
Subject: Re: The most recommended way of naming methods in Ruby


On Jan 18, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> 
> - methods that modify the object (or caller) itself, should be exclamations:
>  obj.truncate!
>  obj.remove_name!
>  obj.date! "Julian" # I wish I could do obj.date "Julian"!, instead. Ah, well.

I think the conventional wisdom is that this should only be done only if there is a matching non-mutating method that has the name without the exclamation mark.

Gary Wright