From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-06T11:55:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03852] Re: Array.uniq! returning nil

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:03851] Re: Array.uniq! returning nil"
    on 00/07/06, "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@keynauts.com> writes:

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

|Accoding Blade's nice looking threading view;
|http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/9052?9024-9551 ,
|I cannot find objection to [ruby-dev:9096] and [ruby-dev:9146].
|I thought that proposition could be accepted (for me, at least).

Didn't I raise objection?  Well, perhaps I forgot to say my opinion.

|Nishi-san's proposition in [ruby-dev:9096]:
|  String#gsub   => create substituted string and returns it.
|  String#gsub!  => substitutes itself and returns self
|  String#gsub!? => substitutes itself and returns if modification is done or not.
|  String#gsub?  => create substituted string and returns if modification is done or not. !?!?

I can agree with the possibility of the combination of modify/copy,
modified-or-unmodified-string/modified-string-or-nil.  But I don't
feel '?' is a good name sign for it.

							matz.