From: harryo@... (Harry Ohlsen)
Date: 2001-02-23T21:10:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11373] Re: Using an object as a variable

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 16:29:17 +0900, Stephen White
<spwhite@chariot.net.au> wrote:

>I can use strings and numbers as simple variables, eg:
>
>  a = 45
>  b = 54
>  c = a + b
>  puts c

I guess what you're looking for is the equivalent of C++'s
constructors, where "a = <something>" causes a call to the constructor
for whatever type "a" is that takes a parameter of the type of
<something>.

Unfortunately, I can't see any nice way one could fit this into Ruby,
since there's no type information for "a".

As ts says, you can get what you're after for the "a + b" part,
because by the time that is called, a and b have been created and are
of some type.