From: Greg McIntyre <greg@...>
Date: 2003-11-19T21:57:18+09:00
Subject: x.f! RCR

It bugs me that some methods have a ! on the end and some don't. It
seems very arbitrary and inconsistent to me. And the same for ?. I'd
like it if ! was a special keyword or operator or something, so that

  x.f!

was expanded to this

  (x = x.f)

if x#f! was not already defined (so that in-place algorithms retained
their efficiency). Has this already been suggested?

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