From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-03-02T07:18:27+09:00
Subject: Re: dup and clone

On 3/1/07, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Because Fixnum's , like some other things like Symbols, nil, true,
> false are immediate valued objects, t

Actually, I realized I mispoke slightly as soon as I sent this.  These
are all what the implementation calls special constants which means
that there is a unique instance for a given value.  Some of them like
SmallIntegers, nil, true, and false are allso immediate value objects
in that the value of a reference to one of these objects encodes the
value directly rather than acting as a pointer to ram which contains
the actual object.

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Rick DeNatale

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