From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-06T00:15:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03842] Re: Array.uniq! returning nil

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.