From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-12-31T11:03:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29780] Re: Ruby and variables (was Re: Perl/Python Module Porting)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:29739] Re: Ruby and variables (was Re: Perl/Python Module Porting)"
    on 01/12/31, Massimiliano Mirra <list@chromatic-harp.com> writes:

|The issue is, if you're not aware of Ruby's take on values and
|variables (as matju pointed out), similar situations seem to present
|different behaviours.

In other words, unlike Strings and other objects, Numeric values are
immutable for mysterious reasons (hint: [ruby-talk:29730]), so that
you cannot change their values in place.

							matz.