From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2011-08-19T15:59:15+09:00
Subject: Re: switch string to object

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On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:52 AM, zuerrong <zuerrong@gmail.com> wrote:

> >>
> > Objects are just things that can be assigned to variables -- you can also
> > invoke methods on them, and they have classes.
> >
> > So strings, like nearly everything in Ruby, are objects.
> >
> > What are you expecting it to output?
> >
>
> hello = "world"
> puts "hello".to_object_variable
>
> will expect to print "world".
>
> Thanks.
>
>

hello, in this case, is a variable. Notice that you cannot assign `hello`,
*itself* to a variable. Only the object that `hello` is pointing to (the
string `"world"`)

Anywhere you use hello, it will be implicitly dereferenced. It is the same
as using the object that it is pointing to. So that means you simply need to
do `puts hello` and it will print "world"

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