On Jul 30, 12:15 pm, Masklinn <maskl...@masklinn.net> wrote: [snip] > Furthermore Ruby has a pretty nice convention (sadly not used enough I > think) taken from Scheme where it's possible to postfix a method name > with "!" (note: the "!" is part of the name, there's no magic) to > indicate that this method modifies the object it's called on rather > than simply returning stuff.
Another oddity i did not like at first but must admit is growing on me vector.reverse --> returns a new reversed vector vector.reverse! --> modifies the instance vector in-place Of course in python you would do... vector.reverse --> in-place vector.reversed --> in-place The above example works pretty good, but this doesn't always "sound" good. Take for example this... point3d.offset --> return a new pt point3d.offseted --> What did you say!?!?! Now try Ruby's way point3d.offset! point3d.offset a symbol works better for these things -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
