From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-08-19T00:50:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04508] Re: methods w/ ! giving nil

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:04502] methods w/ ! giving nil"
    on 00/08/18, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
|
|I have got used to the idea that methods that end in '!' return nil if
|nothing changes.  But not all of them do.  Why does array.sort! not behave
|like that?  Why should it be different from the array.uniq! method in this
|respect?

Mostly because underlying qsort(3) does not provide the way to know if
modification is happened.  I will gladly accept any idea to implement
consistent ! behavior without performance penalty.

							matz.