From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-04T02:43:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03777] Re: Array.uniq! returning nil

Hi.

In message "[ruby-talk:03771] Re: Array.uniq! returning nil"
    on 00/07/03, Aleksi Niemel� <aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

|That's good. *Waiting eagerly* :). But even then I guess
|
|  uniqChars = text.split(//).uniq
|
|needs a copy if there're any characters to be removed from the array. And if
|we can't rely on that fact there are always some chars to be removed, it
|seems we can't use Array.uniq!. It's all ok, I can always write

Hmm, how about this?

  uniqChars = text.split(//).instance_eval{uniq!; self}

Although it's not handy at all. ;-<

							matz.