From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-05-09T21:48:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Principle of le,err i mean biggest surprise!!??

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:15 PM, globalrev <skanemupp@yahoo.se> wrote:
> puts "Input sentence:"
> sentence = gets.split()
> puts
>
> temp = sentence
> phrase = sentence
> puts ":", temp, sentence, phrase
>
> phrase[0] = temp[1]
> puts "oink", phrase, temp
>
> when changing phrase[0] this will change temp as well and even
> sentence! makes no sense and very surprising. how do i do what i want
> to do?
>
> so basically ami messing with pointers here or what?

http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/articles/2006/09/13/on-variables-values-and-objects
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