From: Ammar Ali Date: 2010-11-11T18:48:50+09:00 Subject: Re: what's an object? On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Robert Klemme wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Brian Candler wrote: >> One other point. A local variable is not an object and never is - >> although you cam get an object which represents the stack frame it lives >> with (a Binding) > > No variable ever *is* an object in Ruby.  Variables *reference* objects! Now that's a different, or at least clearer, statement. And it fits with what I know. Thanks, Ammar