From: Paul Smith <paul@...>
Date: 2009-11-05T03:21:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby doesn't implement x++ for Fixnum's because ???

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Tony Arcieri <tony@medioh.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> And how exactly would you change the value of 1 in place?
>>
>
> You don't.  Are you insinuating the behavior of Fixnums isn't already
> special cased to begin with?

a = 1

a.class #Fixnum

a++ # a is now 2

1.class #Fixnum

1++ # Illegal

So although a is a Fixnum, and 1 is a Fixnum, they respond to ++ differently?

>
> --
> Tony Arcieri
> Medioh/Nagravision
>



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