From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-12-31T11:03:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29781] Re: Ruby and variables (was Re: Perl/Python Module Porting)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:29730] Re: Ruby and variables (was Re: Perl/Python Module Porting)"
    on 01/12/31, "Mark Hahn" <mchahn@facelink.com> writes:

|I personally think the performance advantages of your method of storing
|Fixnum values is great enough to justify keeping Numeric immutable.
|Unfortunately, this means everyone learning ruby must remember what is
|mutable and what is not.

Unless everything is equally mutable (or immutable), you have to
remember what is mutable and what is not, anyway.  Imagining languages
without mutable values (or immutable values), I'd love to choose
remembering them.  And I feel I'm fortunate.  I am an optimist.

							matz.