From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-02-25T06:12:00+09:00
Subject: Re: pointer and other questions

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!

However, Fixnums can have instance variables, just like any other number.

class Fixnum
  attr_accessor :foo
end

5.foo = :bar
4.foo # nil
6.foo # nil
5.foo # :bar