From: Angel Martin <angel@...>
Date: 2004-06-04T04:09:19+09:00
Subject: Re: variable -- set value

El mar, 01-06-2004 a las 17:40, Mark Hubbart escribi�:

> String#replace replaces the contents of the string with the argument 
> passed.
> 
> But everything in ruby is done by reference, so there is no clean way 
> of doing what you are talking about that works for every type. This is 
> one of those things that really bugged me at first, but I eventually 
> liked; Not being able to do tricks like that doesn't seem to hamper my 
> code any, and leaves it much easier to understand.
> 
> I would recommend leaving the pointers to C and Perl :)

IMHO, why not a generic replace for every class:

'Object#self=' class??

Thanks,
  Angel