From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-12-11T00:23:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7006] Re: return value of mutating methods

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6972] Re: return value of mutating methods"
    on 00/12/10, "Christoph Rippel" <crippel@primenet.com> writes:

|The current behavior of collect! is already incompatible with 
|the bang rule - it always returns the object but should always
|return nil (which is obviously a pretty useless behavior).

Should it?  It ALWAYS modify the receiver, so I think it should (and
does) always return the receiver itself.  Am I confusing?

As for sort! (and reverse!), yes, it is incompatible with the bang
rule, it shall be changed.  The problem is that I haven't set up my
mind to change either way.

							matz.