That's one reason I really like Ruby. You can do things like obj.meth! that denote that the meth method operates in-place. Self-documenting code. Update: the "!" is allowed in method names, and does not enforce in-place modification, but it is merely a convention.

Oh. PerlMonks.

I have no problem with it, so long as the behavior is documented.

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