From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-11-05T06:59:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby doesn't implement x++ for Fixnum's because ???

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby doesn't implement x++ for Fixnum's because ???"
    on Thu, 5 Nov 2009 04:25:05 +0900, RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@USComputerGurus.com> writes:

|BTW,  I'm not advocating x++ for Ruby.  I'm just trying to understand
|whether Ruby would literally change 1 to 2 as opposed to change a
|variable that contains 1 to subsequently contain 2.

There's no way to modify local variables by sending message in Ruby.

							matz.