From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T05:44:25+09:00
Subject: Re: value by reference

Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> writes:

> 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.

I disagree.  a simply is an *reference to an* Integer, initalized with
5.  Just like String.new("foo") is a String containing "foo", for
example.

Maybe we could have mutable Integers if they get created with .new?

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