From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-06-15T01:21:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Globals not incrementing inside block

On 6/14/07, Ivan Salazar <ivan.salazarv@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2:15 pm, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denat...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > May I have the temerity to point out that there's another subtle
> > misconception in this statement which I see a lot of Ruby nubies trip
> > up on, and that's thinking that variables are objects.
> >
> > An object holds state and behavior, a variable references an object.
> I agree with you, that is also a frequent misconception.
>
> >In brief, to modify an object you make a call to a method with
> >side effects or reassign the object to the new one created after the method
> >call.
>
> The one above should read: "or reassign the variable to the new object
> created".
> (I don't know what happened, maybe I got confused while writing or it
> was just
> my good-old stupidity XD)

Just nit-picking but even with that change, it's still not quite
right, reassigning a variable doesn't modify the object it previously
referenced.

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Rick DeNatale

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