From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-02T00:24:34+09:00
Subject: Re: variable pointer

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> It was recently noted on the Rails mailing list that something like
> that happens in ActiveRecord.  Given Person and Address models, where
> Person has_one Address:
>
>  a = person.address
>  person.address = Address.find(some_other_address)
>  puts a       # a has changed!
>
> I find it un-Rubyish and disconcerting (though I'm still waiting for
> someone to explain the rationale; there may be something I'm missing).

can you show an example?  are you saying that activerecord avoids apparent
copy-on-write semantics with some trickery?


-a
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