From: Philip Mak <pmak@...>
Date: 2002-06-10T11:53:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting method! for free from method

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:21:23AM +0900, james@rubyxml.com wrote:
> > Is there a shortcut for telling ruby to define method! for me?
> 
> method! would suggest that there were some permanent side effects to the
> receiver, and whether or not that's true depends on the specific code.
> 
> If you have
> 
>  def right_now
>    Time.new.to_s
>  end
> 
> then what would right_now! do?

With the way I'm thinking of it, myObj.right_now! would be equivalent
to:

myObj = myObj.right_now