From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T02:03:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Object id

Hi,

In message "Re: Object id"
    on Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:51:19 +0900, Sea&Gull <v@vsu.ru> writes:

|u@l:~> ruby -w -e 'class C; end; c1 = C.new; p c1; puts c1.object_id'
|#<C:0xb7d921c8>
|-605253404
|
|What id does the object "c1" have - 0xb7d921c8 or -605253404 ?
|If -605253404, why it is negative?

-605253404 (0xb7d921c8 is an "address" of the object).
And it's negative just because object_id is an arbitrary integer
number.

							matz.