From: "jay s." <solomon.jas@...>
Date: 2011-05-27T01:30:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Method that mutates object

Jeremy Bopp wrote in post #1001275:
> On 5/26/2011 11:07, jay s. wrote:
>>     ...set x to 5...
>>   end
>> end
>>
>>
>> now when you call x the value is 5
>
> Instances of Integer are immutable, so you can't do that.  The
> documentation for Fixnum (a descendant of Integer) mentions this in the
> Overview section:
>
> http://rdoc.info/stdlib/core/1.9.2/Fixnum
>
> -Jeremy




Thanks.

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