From: "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@...>
Date: 2001-08-12T21:23:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19594] Re: Perl/Python/Ruby common backend (Parrot, can Ruby play too?)

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:55:30PM +0900, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Ned Konz wrote:
> 
> > could load on demand. However, when I re-load an object that I had a proxy 
> > to, I want all the other objects that pointed to the proxy to now point to 
> > the real object.
> > Being able to swap their identities allows me to do this.
> > This is a trivial operation on the old Smalltalks that used double 
> > indirection to get to objects.
> 
> 
> Patch below.
[snipped patch]

Any chance that this goes into standard ruby?
But it should be named swap then...

greetings, Florian Pflug