[Tutor] 'in-place' methods
Terry Carroll
carroll at tjc.com
Sat Feb 18 23:05:51 CET 2006
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Kent Johnson wrote:
> Ruby has an interesting approach to this - the names of mutating methods
> end with !. So it would be list.sort!() which gives a strong cue to what
> is happening.
What a great idea! Hmm.. maybe Python could do this, too; and use some
other characters like $, @ and % to indicate if a name is a reference to a
plain old variable, a list, or a dictionary!
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