From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <wonado@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T08:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: pass by reference?

Per Velschow schrieb:
> Everything is pass-by-reference in Ruby. There is no pass-by-value. So 
> your memory problems must have another cause.

May be, that you do in fact a copy by some other operations, that create a new 
String object and copy the original. E.g.

s = t + ''

creates a new string with the same contents. There are several possibilities to 
do things like that without recognizing it.

Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner