From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-01-03T04:44:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't change the value of self

Jonathan Leighton wrote:
> Thanks very much for this explanation, the restriction makes a lot more
> sense to me now.

You should also know that more complex objects (as you know) can
often change their state. In particular, Array and String both
implement a replace method, which totally replaces their contents.
But even then, the object id stays the same.


Hal