From: Parker Selbert <parker@...>
Date: 2010-10-18T01:15:58+09:00
Subject: Re: simple question: pointer equivalent in ruby

Shea Barton wrote in post #954956:
> OR even
>
> value = 5
> othervalue = value
> othervalue = 3
> value (should be 3)

That is precisely how ruby works by default. If you wanted othervalue to 
just take the 'value' of value, i.e. 3, you would use this instead:

value = 5
other = value.dup
puts other #5
other = 3
puts other #3
puts value #5

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