From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-10-12T01:17:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

Very interesting observation, Gergely.  If it is true, like you said, then
probably Ruby internal implementation in C can further be optimized.  (We 
deal with this kind of issue all the time in C++, don't we?  I mean,
isn't that the "+" operator and the "+=" operator invoke two different
functions in C++?)

Regards,

Bill
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Kontra, Gergely <kgergely@mlabdial.hit.bme.hu> wrote:
>>3) 'x+=b', 'x*=b' and other assignment operators is internally translated
>>into 'x=x+b' and so on, so these operators assign to x reference to
>>newly created object

> If this is true, a+=1 creates a new object. Can't it be avoided?