From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T03:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Overwriting the Integer class for method succ! (instead of just succ)

paul wrote:
> Thanks all! I became so much wiser now. I gues I didn't find this
> information googling, because I assumed that it would be possible,
> therefore searching "ruby integer overwrite value" and such...
> 
> Now I still wonder, the only source-code I found for the Integer class
> was in C. From this I wasn't able to figure out how I would go IF i'd
> like to write this count++ (and with that modifying all 1's to 2's
> e.g.).

You cannot do this (even in C) because Fixnum is immutable.  Every 
Fixnum instance has a fixed value and that never changes (like Integer 
instances in Java).

Kind regards

	robert