From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@...>
Date: 2001-09-26T23:30:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21722] Re: manipulating "immutable" objects such as Fixnum from within callbacks & al...

Here's an easy one:

class Ptr
	def initialize(obj) @obj = obj end
	def []=() @obj = obj end
	def []() @obj end
end
module Kernel
	def _ptr() Ptr.new(self) end
end

Then you just do stuff like:

def foo(int)
	int[] += 1
end
x = 1._ptr
foo(x)
puts x[]

Of course, this used to work and it seems it just crashes Ruby now....

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