From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-05-06T12:23:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Constant in Ruby.

On 5/5/06, Charlie <peckcharlie@yahoo.com> wrote:> Sorry, the leftshift results were consistent, but why doesn't the> shifted result get stored back into pointer A like in the case of a> string?
Because it's not leftshift on a string. And A isn't a pointer. It's a binding.
See my latest post to you that goes into the details. Make sure youread Jim's shorter treatment, too.
Fixnums are, by the way, immutable. And assignment doesn't affect the object.
-austin--Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca