From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T06:59:28+09:00
Subject: Re: pointer and other questions

On 23.02.2009 22:42, Yossef Mendelssohn wrote:
> On Feb 23, 3:24 pm, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> This is irrelevant from a user's point of view.  The logic stays the same:
>>
>> b = 1 # or any other object!
>> a = b # a now points to the same object, 1 in this case
>> b = 2 # or any other object! a still points to 1 while b points to 2
> 
> I only pointed it out because there's no way (that I know of) to show
> that a and b point to the same object at one point if a Fixnum is
> used. You can use 'hi'.sub!, but there's no 1.succ!

You can use #object_id for that - even for Fixnums. :-)

Cheers

	robert