From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-05-09T10:34:21+09:00
Subject: Re: object reference handle (like perl's reference to scalar)

David = "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net>
>>> It's a bit misleading to call it "passing by reference".

Dave:
I guess I was using the phrase "pass by reference" to refer to the doing of 
reference-like things inside the method rather than the actual semantics of 
the call (which is obviously still a normal Ruby method call). My bad, or a 
simple misunderstanding.

Dave:
>> Let's call it "pass by Ref" then, where Ref is my name for the container.

David:
> I guess, but then do we have to say "pass by Array"? :-)

Dave:
Yeah, and foo(:name => :value) should be "pass by Hash", etc...

Maybe Matz can sign off this Official Terminology Change at the same time he 
changes "meta/singleton/virtual class"  into "sterile class"!

Cheers,
Dave