From: Mathieu Bouchard Date: 2000-12-18T16:57:57+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:7559] Re: flatten_by(n) > Also the name of concat is descriptive enough (at least to me). So there's > no need to have specificly concat!. a.concat(b) could mean either "concatenate b in a" or "concatenation of a and b", which could have been disambiguated as "concat!" and "concat" respectively. it may be too late. those who may like the current "concat" are most possibly C programmers. matju