From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2002-11-26T12:14:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (11/24/02)

> It's applicable to a small subset of the total set of classes.
> Really, x++ is the same as x.succ!, and x.succ! won't work because
> there's no assignment and you can't change self.

I don't follow that.  Why is it that I can do string.chomp! but it is not
conceivable to do x.succ!?  Aren't you changing self with string.chomp!?


Daniel.