From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2010-12-18T02:35:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Integer/Fixnum/Bignum are "immutable"?

Hi,

In message "Re: Integer/Fixnum/Bignum are "immutable"?"
    on Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:31:50 +0900, Kedar Mhaswade <kedar.mhaswade@gmail.com> writes:

|Sorry. Does that mean my understanding is not correct or no, there is no 
|way?

|I meant value of the Integer to be the numeric value it (the actual 
|object, not its reference) represents.

If your definition of the "value" of an Integer is its numeric value,
you don't have any way to change.  Note that in Ruby even a fixnum can have
its own instance variables.

							matz.