[#3986] Re: Principle of least effort -- another Ruby virtue. — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

> Principle of Least Effort.

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[#4139] Facilitating Ruby self-propagation with the rig-it autopolymorph application. — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

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[ruby-talk:03842] Re: Array.uniq! returning nil

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-05 15:15:22 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3842
Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:03825] Re: Array.uniq! returning nil"
    on 00/07/05, "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@keynauts.com> writes:

|http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/9096
|We Japanese users discussed this issue, but we could not come to
|a conclusion.  I cannot find any objection now.  Matz, how do you
|think this proposition?

Hmm, I thought I (we) came to the negative conclusion.

|Aleksi, how do you think 'String#gsub?'.  Seeing 'String#gsub?',
|how do people think?

I don't vote for them, if they actually substitute strings.
Predicates should not have any side effect.

							matz.

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