From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2010-10-18T01:25:51+09:00
Subject: Re: simple question: pointer equivalent in ruby

Hi --

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Parker Selbert wrote:

> 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

Have you tried running that? :-)


David

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