From: Shadowfirebird <shadowfirebird@...>
Date: 2011-03-08T22:26:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Duplicate methods removal in Ruby's TODO ?

> These methods all alert the receiver in place. They have no trailing
> exclamation mark because there are no methods of the same name which
> return a modified copy of the object only. I don't think a bang is an
> alarm to tell you "there is a same name method", a bang should be an
> alam "it will change your object, be carefull!" So string.clear should
> be string.clear!, even if there's no "clear" method which doesn't alert
> the receiver. I think it's logical.

This bugs me, too.

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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
		-- R. A. Heinlein