From: Sea&Gull <v@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T02:31:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Object id

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.

Ok, it's now clear :-)
I have not seen in "Programming Ruby" or anywhere else
that object_id can be a negative integer, so I was a bit confused
when saw it myself in experiments with Ruby.