From: Maik Schmidt <contact@...>
Date: 2003-11-19T22:42:17+09:00
Subject: Re: x.f! RCR

Greg McIntyre wrote:
> 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 ?.

Hmm, maybe the whole thing is much simpler than you think:

 From matz' "Ruby in a nutshell":

<quote>
You can append ! or ? to the name of a Ruby method. Traditionally,
! is appended to a method that requires more caution than the variant
of the same name without !. A question mark ? is appended to a method
that determines the state of a Boolean value, true or false.
</quote>

That's all.

Cheers,

   <maik/>