From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2007-01-28T03:29:47+09:00
Subject: Re: pass by reference?

On 1/26/07, Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> wrote:
> Andy Koch wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there a way to pass variables by reference into function.
> >
> > I have large string to pass and the pass by value seems to be eating up
> > too much memory.
>
>   You don't actually need to do anything: everything in ruby is passed
> by reference, (excepted integers, symbols, nil, false and true - am I
> missing one ?)

Those are still passed by reference. It just so happens that they are
unique and immutable in the system, so it looks a lot like
pass-by-value.

-austin
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