From: SpringFlowers AutumnMoon <summercoolness@...>
Date: 2007-09-30T11:39:57+09:00
Subject: Re: a = Dog.new # a is not a pointer and not a reference?

Ian Whitlock wrote:

> So if you find it helpful and wish to say that some of the purpose of
> variables in Ruby is served by some of the functions of some pointers
> in languages with pointers, I doubt if any rubist would disagree.  But
> if you say Ruby variables are pointers in other languages, they are
> likely to reply,"Rubbish", because Ruby does not want to require the
> low level bookkeeping that pointers imply.

I want to think of it like as a pointer to distinguish it from the C++'s 
reference, which is quite different.

Maybe if C++ didn't call that reference but called it alias, then the 
word reference wouldn't lead to some people thinking of it as C++'s 
reference.

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