From: John Mettraux <jmettraux@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T10:30:20+09:00
Subject: Re: String.insert newbie question

On 1/27/07, Marco Guiseppe <kreatix@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jason Mayer wrote:
>
> >> check it out in irb.
> >
>
> > Hope that helps.
>
> Thanks for clearing that up, didn't know about object_id. Is this
> behaviour common in programming languages? Seems weird to me.

It's not weird if you consider :

customer0 = Customer.new("John", "Doe")
customer1 = customer0
customer0.first_name = "Paul"
puts customer1.first_name

customer0 and customer1 points to the same instance.

Java strings are misleading.


Best regards,

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