From: Ivan Salazar <ivan.salazarv@...>
Date: 2007-06-24T01:55:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Globals not incrementing inside block

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Ohhh, right. I know where is the mistake... My poor english. Im still not
writing what I want to say XD.
My bad, I am very sorry. But that's what I ment to say.


2007/6/14, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com>:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Rick DeNatale
>
> My blog on Ruby
> http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
>
>

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