From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T04:48:21+09:00
Subject: Re: value by reference

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:47:38 +0900, Mohammad Khan <mkhan@lextranet.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 13:41, Florian Gross wrote:
> > Mohammad Khan wrote:
> > > It would be great if we can do
> > > a = Integer.new(1)
> > > b = Integer.new(2)
> > > c = Integer.new(3)
> > Which would be Objects whose values can be changed?
> > I don't know, I think I would find it confusing if I'd do  five =
> > Integer.new(5); some_method(five)  and if after that five * five would
> > not be 25.
> In this instance it would be confusing.
> But using this concept...
> I would be able to do what I wanted to do (please see my original posting)

Which gets right back to the original question:

*Why* do you want to be able to do that? Is there not something else
that you can perhaps do to improve your design that doesn't require
this, since it's not really a supported mode of operation in Ruby?

-austin
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