From: Gregory Brown Date: 2006-08-08T07:53:13+09:00 Subject: Re: An integer's life span? On 8/7/06, Eric Hodel wrote: > IIRC an Integer's instance variables are eternal due to various > implementation details. Specifically due to the fact that integers are immediate values in ruby. (Thus, are never collected) So, attr_accessor prime would probably due the trick.