From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-07-26T05:09:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Question - Passing parameters by reference

Hi --

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Chris Thiel wrote:
>> 
>>> What if the method is returning something else already and you don't want
>>> to have to return the changed value? How do you pass in a variable to a
>>> method and have the change stick when it exists the method in ruby?
>> 
>> You can change an object:
>>
>>  def change_me(str)
>>    str.upcase!
>>  end
>>
>>  s = "abc"
>
> did you mean to say...
>
>   s = str = "abc"
>
> ?
>
>>  change_me(str)

No; I meant to say change_me(s) :-)


David

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