From: Chris Pine <nemo@...>
Date: 2003-01-11T05:05:26+09:00
Subject: dot-equals method?

Hello,

I keep finding myself wanting to write things like this:

  string.=reverse
  input.=split /\s*/

instead of this:

  string = string.reverse
  input = input.split /\s*/

It's a silly thing, I guess, but after years of programming in Ruby I
*still* find myself trying to do this... so maybe there's something to this.

Is there a good reason why this couldn't be done?  (Does it break some
syntax somewhere, or just not make sense?)  Would it be possible to do
something like this without hacking the interpreter?

Thanks,

Chris