Neil Hodgson wrote: > Rick Johnson: > >> The Ruby language attempted to save the programmer from the scourge of >> obtaining a four year degree in linguistics just to create intuitive >> identifiers "on-the-fly", and they tried to remove this ambiguity by >> employing "post-fix-punctuation" of the exclamation mark as a visual cue >> for in-place modification of the object: > > Ruby does not use '!' to indicate in-place modification: > http://dablog.rubypal.com/2007/8/15/bang-methods-or-danger-will-rubyist
Why am I not surprised that Rick's knowledge of Ruby is no deeper than his knowledge of Python? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
