From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-11-26T22:17:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (11/24/02)

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:10:04 +0900, dblack@candle.superlink.net 
wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> 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 :-)

Well, that's what I get for posting when I did ... (:

In the case of an immediate object, what I said is correct. In the
case of a value object, what I said is absolutley wrong (:

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.11.26 at 08.16.18