From: Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@...>
Date: 2003-11-23T22:08:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Destructive type conversion (to_i!, to_f!)

Hi!

* Charles Comstock; 2003-11-22, 23:55 UTC:
> ARGV[0].to_i!
> if(ARGV[0] > 5) {...}

For me the least surprising answer to the question what

a = [0,1,2,3,4,5]
a[10].to_i!
p a

results in given the choices

a) [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
b) [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, nil, nil, nil, nil, 0]
c) syntax error

is c.

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
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