From: Edmond Kachale <edmond.kachale@...>
Date: 2011-01-20T20:11:18+09:00
Subject: Re: The most recommended way of naming methods in Ruby

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2011/1/19 Gary Wright <gwtmp01@mac.com>

>
> On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:13 AM, Edmond Kachale wrote:
>
> > Le 18 janvier 2011 22:01:11 UTC+2, Gary Wright <gwtmp01@mac.com> a =E9c=
rit
> :
> >
> >> On Jan 18, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> >>> obj.remove_name!
> >>> obj.date! "Julian" # I wish I could do obj.date "Julian"!, instead. A=
h,
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > Someone may give more info on why it should be like this:
> >
>
> I think you left something off.  Anyway...
>
> Here is a great explanation of the '!' naming convention:
>
> <http://dablog.rubypal.com/2007/8/15/bang-methods-or-danger-will-rubyist>
>
> I was going to try to explain this but why bother when David Black has
> already done a great job?
>

I like you on this.

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