From: "trans." <tsawyer@...>
Date: 2005-01-19T23:06:02+09:00
Subject: Re: value by reference

Right. I'm not suggesting that Ruby change this. I'm just wondering if
might be possible to add an extra feature that would allow for the
alternate when passing arguments through methods.

Personally, I've alwasy thought of variables as containters, so in that
way of thinking, which I think is common, one would expect to be able
to change what's in the container. I don't think Ruby's  approach is
always simple for the enduser and it does lead to some surprises --for
example this very thread.

Hmm..reminds me of why I like the idea of all variables being
collections....

Binding.of_caller is useful for meta-programming, but that's bad
business for general use.

T.