From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-11-26T22:10:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (11/24/02)

Hi --

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:14:58 +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> >> 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!?
>
> Nope.
>
> x.succ! says "x should be changed to be the succeeding object".
> x.chomp! says "x should have newlines removed from itself."
>
> x.succ! results in a new object; x.chomp! does not.

But wait -- see your next post :-)


David

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