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Le 18 janvier 2011 22:01:11 UTC+2, Gary Wright <gwtmp01 / mac.com> a ñÄrit :

>
> On Jan 18, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> >
> > - methods that modify the object (or caller) itself, should be
> exclamations:
> >  obj.truncate!
> >  obj.remove_name!
> >  obj.date! "Julian" # I wish I could do obj.date "Julian"!, instead. Ah,
> well.
>
> I think the conventional wisdom is that this should only be done only if
> there is a matching non-mutating method that has the name without the
> exclamation mark.


Someone may give more info on why it should be like this:

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