From: Malte Milatz <malteNOSPAM@...>
Date: 2006-03-03T23:23:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Teaching Ruby to COBOL programmers

gwtmp01 wrote:
> x = 99
> x.note = 'bottles of beer on the wall'
> x.note					# => 'bottles of beer on the wall'
> 
> Seems like x holds a reference to an object and not an immediate value.

If x looks like a reference to an object, if it walks like a reference to
an object, ...

Malte