From: Aldric Giacomoni <"aldric[remove]"@...>
Date: 2009-02-19T23:29:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Tree structure - how do we link nodes together?

Ken Bloom wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:25:28 -0500, Aldric Giacomoni wrote:
>
>   
>> I know I could just use rubytree, which looks quite nice, but I'd like
>> to see what you guys would do about creating a tree and linking the
>> nodes together.
>> In C++ we'd just make pointers, so how would we do the equivalent in
>> Ruby?
>>     
>
> The easiest equivalence is that essentially everything in Ruby is a 
> pointer and the . operator in Ruby is the equivalent of C++'s -> (This is 
> similar to how Java behaves as well.) The = operator changes where the 
> pointer points.
>
> There's no such thing in Ruby as a pointer to a pointer, nor is there any 
> such thing as a variable that's not a pointer at all.
>
> --Ken
>
>   

Understood now. Thank you :)
--Aldrc