From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <wonado@...>
Date: 2007-01-28T01:45:10+09:00
Subject: Re: pass by reference?

dblack@wobblini.net schrieb:

> Right -- I take that as the starting point -- but what I mean is that
> the way the assignment/rebinding semantics work doesn't necessarily
> pertain to the reference/value question.

I agree. reference/value came from the world before talking about objects. I 
remember in Algol60 somehow the wording "after 'integer i;' the variable 'i IS 
an integer".

We would never say that after writing "s = 'A Ruby String object'" the variable 
's' IS a String object - it gives a name for a special String object, or 
references a special String object (see 1).

Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner

(1): This wording is is used from a German, who tries to find out the best 
English word for what in German will be called "benennt", or "bezeichnet". I 
don't know what wording is really good in English.