On 6/1/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> Kyle Heon wrote:
> >
> > I'm new to Ruby so I when you refer to a "bang" method you mean something
> > like "chomp!"? And if so, why do some thing they shouldn't exist? Just
> > curious.
> >
> 
> Oops, failed to address the other half of that.
> 
> The ! usually (not always) indicates that a method changes its
> receiver "in place" rather than creating a new object as a result.

Just curious, can you give me an example of a bang method that doesn't
modify the
receiver in place?