From: Kedar Mhaswade Date: 2010-12-18T02:54:13+09:00 Subject: Re: Integer/Fixnum/Bignum are "immutable"? > 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. Got it. That clarifies. Thanks! A related question is if the above were true, shouldn't 2.frozen? have returned true (or else I don't understand what 2.frozen? means)? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.