Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension

Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension by pizza234 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @08:52AM (#34245480)

When i learned Ruby, it wasn't really a WTF for me - I just learned that '!' methods are destructive, while non-'!' aren't.

However, the destructiveness semantic has been significantly overloaded over the time, so each Ruby (Rails) project probably interprets them in a different way, and it ends up having arbitrary semantics.

I'm used to it, but I personally think that for the reason above, it's not a good syntax/semantic to have in a language.

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Re:Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension by michaelteter on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:12PM (#34249997)

> arbitrary semantics

I wouldn't go so far to say it is arbitrary (unless someone uses it wrongly :) ).

As far as I know, a bang name only exists if a non-bang name exists as well. And the one with ! indicates an unexpected or comparatively dangerous outcome, such as a mutation, raising an exception, bypassing some normal check, etc.

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