From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-14T12:06:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03992] Re: Array.uniq! returning nil

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:03964] Re: Array.uniq! returning nil"
    on 00/07/13, Jo Totland <jo@totland.org> writes:

|But I don't understand your decision to _not_ follow Scheme tradition
|here? After all it's understandable, and it's easy to remember. While
|it's certainly possible to overdo cleanness, I don't think this is
|where you should start worrying. The point made about concat earlier
|in this thread is a valid critiscism.

The reason is, as a totally object-oriented language, Ruby has too
many operations with side-effect.  If I choose Scheme way of bang
usage, Ruby programs are filled with bangs.  That is ugly, at least
not my taste.  That's why.

Hope this explains what I feel.

							matz.