From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-05-01T23:46:41+09:00
Subject: Re: References in Ruby

Hi --

On Thu, 1 May 2008, marc wrote:

> Marcin Tyman said...
>
>> I was quite a bit confused when write following code:
>>
>> a = 10
>> b = a
>> a = 50
>>
>> puts b   # -> puts 10
>>
>> Why?? Since everything is a reference in Ruby I expected "puts 50".
>
> The way I think of it is that 10 and 50 are objects.

And indeed they are :-)


David

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