From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-01-28T21:56:59+09:00
Subject: Re: pass by reference?

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How about:

class Vault
  attr_accessor :unvault
  def initialize val
    @unvault = val
  end
end

class Object
  def to_vault
    Vault.new(self)
  end
end

def change_me(obj)
  obj.unvault += " rocks!"
end

o = "Ruby".to_vault
change_me(o)
p o.unvault

$ ruby vault-test.rb
"Ruby rocks!"

On 1/27/07, Andy Koch <andy.koch@pc-doctor.com> 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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>
>
>

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