From: Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>
Date: 2005-05-05T06:37:49+09:00
Subject: object reference handle (like perl's reference to scalar)

In ruby, is there a way to get a handle of an object reference?
 In perl, this is the \ operator:

$x = 1; # \$x is a handle to change $x
$a = [1,2,3]; # \$a->[1] is a handle to change an element in $a

As far as I can tell, the closest that Ruby has to this is a
symbol.  But, this only works for object references that have
an associated variable name.  For example, there is no symbol
associated with an element of an array (or hash).



		
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