From: hal9000@...
Date: 2001-06-22T08:40:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16731] Re: Simulating call-by-reference in Ruby

> 
> > Is anyone considering this
> > as an addition to Ruby 1.7, or are there insurmountable 
implementation
> > difficulties? 
> 
> Maybe we just need a name for it?  How about #caller_binding? 
> Matz?

I see the usefulness of this, but...

My gut feeling is that maybe this has been omitted on purpose.

Consider that any call you make could potentially change any
variable in your environment... whether you passed it as a 
parameter or not.

This could be done in three ways: 1. maliciously (not likely);
2. bad coding style - possible; 3. accidentally - all too 
possible.

$0.02,
Hal