From: ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T15:51:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Idiomatic way to copy parameters ?


On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Leif Eriksen wrote:

> But is this the ruby way ? Is this the idiomatic way to avoid side- 
> effects on objects passed in as parameters ?


yes.  i might just use

   local = param.dup

or

local = "#{ param }"

though

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