From: Adam Prescott <mentionuse@...>
Date: 2011-03-09T03:12:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Duplicate methods removal in Ruby's TODO ?

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On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Joey Zhou <yimutang@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Using bang names to denote receiver-modifying methods is not the convention,
and I don't think it should become it.

http://dablog.rubypal.com/2007/8/15/bang-methods-or-danger-will-rubyist

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