From: Michel Martens <blaumag@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T00:38:44+09:00
Subject: Re: value by reference

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:19:13 +0900, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> 
> What would you replace 5 with? :-)
> 
> (Remember, you're sending the 'replace' method to an *object*, not an
> identifier.)

Hi, David. I know how it works now, that's why it's a proposal. The
idea would be to modify the language to allow that kind of
manipulation. Then, the following methods would be allowed:

a = 'hello world'  # String
a.replace(/\w+/)  # Regexp
a.replace(35)  # Fixnum
a.replace(SomeClass.new)  # SomeClass

And then you would be able to add methods like to_s! or to_i!, etcetera.

Michel