From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-10-14T14:07:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

Hello William,

Saturday, October 12, 2002, 7:53:40 PM, you wrote:

WDT> I mean to compare objectively, such as:

WDT>                                     Ruby                 C++
WDT>     variable                        typless              typed
WDT>     data                            typed                typeless
WDT>     assignment                      reference            value
WDT>     pointer                         no                   yes

to be exact, all data except Fixnum/nil/true/false are represented by
references. these references are hold in variables, copied by
assignment, passed to methods and closures

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 Bulat                            mailto:bulatz@integ.ru