From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2009-11-05T04:16:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby doesn't implement x++ for Fixnum's because ???

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:46 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?

yes, i see your point, but consider:

a = Foo.new()
b = a
c = 42
d = c
a++
p b
c++
p d

martin


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