From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-05-06T11:07:29+09:00
Subject: Re: object reference handle (like perl's reference to scalar)

Hi --

On Fri, 6 May 2005 dave.burt@gmail.com wrote:

> To me, this looks more Rubyish. Is there some benefit I'm missing in
> your pulling variable names out of the closure like you do there, Eric?
> If it's all the same, why not just have the object pass itself into a
> reference constructor (as my Object#ref does)?
> # ref.rb
> #
> # For those times you need an extra level of indirection.

Can someone give me an example of such a time?  I'm still not seeing
it.  (I mean, I get what these things are doing, just not where one
would want to do them.)


David

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David A. Black
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