From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-01-12T05:48:04+09:00
Subject: Re: dot-equals method?

Hal E. Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> From: "Chris Pine" <nemo@hellotree.com>
>>   string = string.reverse
>>   input = input.split /\s*/
> 
> I understand. But in these two cases I guess
> you'd want reverse! and split! instead.

Nitpickily, it's not the same thing - 

string = "hello world"
a = string
string = string.reverse

martin