From: Simon Cozens Date: 2002-12-02T02:03:37+09:00 Subject: Re: [FAQ] What do some of Ruby's symbols mean? "Gavin Sinclair" writes: > << > Funny class inheritance; see [appropriate link] for a rationale. What's wrong with "Used for adding methods to an individual object"? That's a lot less scary. > ?! > Suffixes for methods (optional, of course). In general: Not sure "optional" is the best word here. If the ! suffix really was optional, then s.gsub would do the same as s.gsub! -- Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code. -- Dave Olson