From: Mike Onofrietto <lists@...>
Date: 2012-07-15T02:31:55+09:00
Subject: Re: method clear wiping out other array ?

Ryan Davis wrote in post #1068678:
> On Jul 13, 2012, at 23:31 , Mike Onofrietto wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I'll look into it. To me they should be two separate objects so
>> I would not expect the two names to refer to the same array.
>
> variables are not objects. variables are names given to references to
> objects. After var2=var1 you had this setup:
>
> var1 --> +-----+
>          | obj |
> var2 --> +-----+

Ryan,
Thanks. So the assignment is actually a pointing/reference operation 
rather than a copy operation.
As such the assigment caused me to lose all reference to the other array 
object.
I came up with a work-around, and now my code works well.
Thanks again.

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