From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-12-30T12:32:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8323] Re: use of backquotes

HI,

In message "[ruby-talk:8310] Re: use of backquotes"
    on 00/12/30, Holden Glova <dsafari@paradise.net.nz> writes:

|> Try and see how it runs if you changed chomp! into chomp.
|
|ok, now the return value is "". I'm sure that my error is so fundamentally 
|simple here, but I can't figure it out. Anyhow, much other work to do, I'll 
|come back to this problem later :)

Simple rule:

Avoid using bang methods unless you're really sure what you're doing.

							matz.