Why some functions ends with an ! (an exclamation point) in Julia?

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Some function(s) in Julia ends with an exclamation point e.g. pop!, sort! etc.

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By convention, function names ending with an exclamation point (!) modify their arguments. Some functions have both modifying (e.g., sort!) and non-modifying (sort) versions.

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