From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-10-23T17:47:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5777] Re: Array#insert

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5756] Re: Array#insert"
    on 00/10/23, Mark Slagell <mslagell@iastate.edu> writes:

|> Yes, but destructiveness is not bad in general,
|
|Sure, that I agree with. Otherwise I'd be a Lisp devotee I suppose, and
|not hanging around here bothering people. :-)

I don't call that languages with incredable amount of parenthesises
functional.   See rplaca for instance.

|> especially in object-oriented programming, it's part of the nature.
|
|But that puzzles me.

Sometimes.  English puzzles me far often though ;-)

							matz.