From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-01-22T22:28:22+09:00
Subject: Re: String doesnt auto dup on modification

2009/1/22 Albert Schlef <albertschlef@gmail.com>:
> Stefan Lang wrote:
>> 2009/1/21 RK Sentinel <sentinel.2001@gmx.com>:
>> > I define a string in one class. Some other class references it, and
>> > modifies it. I (somehow) expected that when another referer modifies the
>> > reference, ruby would automatically dup() the string.
>>
>> This is a well known "problem" with all languages that
>> have mutable strings. The solution is simple:
>
> If I understand the OP correctly, his problem has nothing to do with
> strings.

Sorry, that's plain wrong. He explicitly mentions Strings in several
places. The object that is mutated *is* a String.

> He says he modifies some object ...and to his great surprise the object
> indeed gets modified.

:-)

Cheers

robert

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