From: itsme213 <itsme213@...>
Date: 2005-01-15T03:06:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Duck Typing and automated Conversions


"Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote

> >     silly_example will not have other access to x, y
> >     (*: since you did: str=str.to_str; count=count.to_int)
>
> Wrong, because to_str need not create a new instance:

The fact that String#to_str returns self, and Fixnum.to_int returns self, is
purely coincidental aliasing (from inside your method body). The original
parm-list variables might as well be anonymous.