From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2005-01-20T02:47:32+09:00 Subject: Re: value by reference On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:14:59 +0900, Mohammad Khan wrote: > I understand that. But what about scenario 2? Scenario 2 is not > acting as scenario 1, is it because scenario 2 gets object rather > than variable? Or, Scenario 2 gets clonable object while scenario > 1 not? Thanks, Florian. The distinction is not between clonable objects and non-clonable objects, AFAICT. It's between immediate and value objects in this particular case, but the real problem is that you're exhibiting a confusion between variables and objects. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca