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You're working on a secret team solving coded transmissions.

Your team is scrambling to decipher a recent message, worried it's a plot to break into a major European National Cake Vault. The message has been mostly deciphered, but all the words are backward! Your colleagues have handed off the last step to you.

Write a method reverse_words! that takes a message as a string and reverses the order of the words in place.

For example:

message = 'cake pound steal' reverse_words!(message) puts message # prints: 'steal pound cake'

When writing your method, assume the message contains only letters and spaces, and all words are separated by one space.

We can do this in space. Remember, in place.

We can do this in time.

If you're swapping individual words one at a time, consider what happens when the words are different lengths. Isn't each swap time in the worst case?

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time and space!

Hmm, the team used your method to finish deciphering the message. There definitely seems to be a heist brewing, but no specifics on where. Any ideas?

How would you handle punctuation?

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