From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2012-12-23T12:26:52+09:00
Subject: Re: POLS and string-handling

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Paul Magnussen <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> So far am very impressed with it; but there is one behaviour I find
> quite alarming, which stems from the fact that Ruby treats strings as
> objects rather than as primitives.

Better get used to it. Ruby treats *everything* as an object, or
perhaps even more literally, a reference.