From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-10-20T03:16:56+09:00
Subject: Re: the level of Ruby programmers vs PHP's


On Oct 19, 2007, at 4:32 AM, SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote:

> oh i mean something like
>
>   print_debug($foo)
>
> will print
>
>   $foo is 3
>

OOOH! I just learned this is CS class!!!!

Ok, it cannot print $foo, because $foo is a reference. All that is  
actually passed to the method is the value of $foo. Thus, the method  
does not actually know who gave it the address of the value - only  
the value itself.

Although I think forth might let you...... Since you can do liike (I  
think):

a = 5
method(a)
a #=> 6


HTH
aRi
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