From: lalawawa <usenet@...>
Date: 2010-01-18T23:25:05+09:00
Subject: Re: basic question: passing a modifiable argument to a routine

When you say that += creates a different object, then are you saying
that when I do

a = 0
while a < 1000000
  a += 1
end

it creates a million different objects and garbage collects most of
them?  Isn't that horribly inefficient for just doing integer
arithmetic?