From: Mohammad Khan <mkhan@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T01:20:45+09:00
Subject: Re: value by reference

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 11:01, trans. wrote:
> > sorry if this offends, but there is no less blunt way to say it.
> > if anyone need it. they've gone wrong already.
> > the solution: design
> 
> That's silly. By that line of reasoning, nearly every other language
> has got it wrong. Wrong must be pretty good since Ruby is no where near
> as popular as those languages that can do this sort of thing.
> 
> I think the problem with Ruby is that it _can be done_ if you use
> certain _types_ of objects, but not others. That to me goes against the
> feather of our friendly duck.
Here, I agree with you.
certain _types_ of object are (probably) : clonable and not clonable

Mohammad