From: Chris Pine <nemo@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T09:13:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Should substrings be modifiable in-place??

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>

[snip]

I'd like to be able to do this:

  str[x,y].reverse!
  str[x..z].reverse!

There is probably some good reason this
won't work, though. ;)
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It would require some serious syntax sugar to pull off...

Why not just str.reverse!(x,y) or str.reverse!(x..y) or something?  We could
do this for reverse (no `!'), too, and probably lots of other String
methods, to suggest 'only operate on substring'.

Chris