From: Joel Pearson <lists@...>
Date: 2013-04-19T18:05:25+09:00
Subject: Re: "gets" overwrites string - why does this happen?

windwiny wrote in post #1106260:
> using
>    filename = $*.dup
>
> because
>    a = []
>    b = a
>    a.__id__ == b.__id__
>
>
> 2013/4/19 Philip Rhoades <phil@pricom.com.au>

Ah yes, in this case gets is modifying $* and therefore filename as 
well.
Please disregard my previous answer, I didn't know about that behaviour 
of gets :)

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