On 8/30/06, Damian Janowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO bang wouldn't follow Ruby's convention (ie that "!" makes something > destructive to the object). > > Something along "find_or_raise" would follow Rails' "find_or_create" > convention. > > But +1 to load vs find. Sounds cool.
Actually, if you search around ruby-talk the bang methods can just be used more generally to mean a "dangerous operation". At least this is what I found in a thread from 04: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/120093 So using find! would be totally appropriate....for a similiar example in core ruby see Kernel#exit and exit!. - rob -- http://www.robsanheim.com http://www.seekingalpha.com http://www.ajaxian.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
