From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-07-09T06:55:08+09:00
Subject: Re: storing and using references to variables

Russell Fulton wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> 2006/7/8, Phillip Hutchings <sitharus@sitharus.com>:
>>> If this isn't appropriate you'll have to use a container as you are at
>>> the moment.
>> I'd really like to know what problem Russel is trying to solve.  I
>> never felt the need for this in Ruby - maybe he's still thinking a tad
>> too much the Perl way.  Russel, any concrete problem you are trying to
>> solve so we can come up with more concrete suggestions?
>>
> 
> the suggestions by other posters will work fine.  Defining a container 
> class is the obvious way to do it -- I'm an experienced programmer but a 
> Ruby newbie -- I'm still getting my head around the subleties :)

Still it might not be a good solution.  There are already reference 
types (look for Delegator, SimpleDelegator and WeakReference).  That's 
why I asked what concrete problem you are trying to solve.  It seemed to 
me that you want to transfer a concept that works good in Perl to Ruby 
where it does not fit that well.  So there might be a better solution.

Kind regards

	robert