From: Anders Borch <spam@...>
Date: 2003-07-04T21:15:41+09:00
Subject: Re: purpose of replace method

Ian Macdonald wrote:

> On Fri 04 Jul 2003 at 19:35:21 +0900, Kent Dahl wrote:
> 
> 
>>For String#replace, this means that you can change a text you have
>>spread to several places without doing a reassignment again. This can be
>>handy if you have it a zillion places. (I.e. consider _one_ replace
>>versus N assignments.)
> 
> 
> Ah, I see. So:
> 
> irb(main):001:0> foo = bar = "string"
> => "string"
> irb(main):002:0> foo = "new"
> => "new"
> irb(main):003:0> bar
> => "string"
> irb(main):004:0> foo = bar = "string"
> => "string"
> irb(main):005:0> foo.replace("new")
> => "new"
> irb(main):006:0> bar
> => "new"
> 
> OK, that makes sense. replace is useful when multiple pointers point to
> the same object.
> 

for this purpose it would be nice to have in Object. Why isn't there a 
replace method in Object?

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