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[ruby-talk:03785] Re: Array.uniq! returning nil

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-04 01:58:17 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3785
Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:03778] Re: Array.uniq! returning nil"
    on 00/07/04, Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

|So I guess there's probably good reason why it can return nil. If there is
|none, maybe this is a feature which should be changed in 1.6 (or in future).

It's the only effective way to know if modification is done.
Changing this behavior would crash fair amount of programs.
I surely know, because I tried (and failed) once before.

							matz.

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