From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T09:44:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Updating the original reference of a variable

On 12/3/05, David Koontz <david@koontzfamily.org> wrote:
> I'm working on a library similar to what DL does and I'm having a
> problem with implementing variables that are to be passed as pointers.
> I have all the C side code working, the problem is updating the original
> variable with a modified value (for example you are calling a function
> that takes two int* and sets their values based on some initilization).
> My setup for passing the call along to the C function is to splat the
> parameters into an array and pass the array and the function name into
> the C layer which then makes the call into the loaded library.

Ruby's variables don't work that way.

-austin
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