On Sunday, February 10, 2013 3:53:57 AM UTC-6, Neil Hodgson wrote: > Ruby does not use '!' to indicate in-place modification:
Really? rb> a = [1,2,3] [1, 2, 3] rb> a.reverse [3, 2, 1] rb> a [1, 2, 3] rb> a.reverse! [3, 2, 1] rb> a [3, 2, 1] And now we will verify that a.reverse! has not assigned 'a' to a new object rb> a = [1,2,3] [1, 2, 3] rb> aID = a.object_id 78906770 rb> a.reverse! [3, 2, 1] rb> a [3, 2, 1] rb> a.object_id 78906770 I'd love to hear an explanation for that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
