From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata Date: 2002-10-24T07:01:33+09:00 Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (10/16/02) Hi Ian, I will put it in the list. Regards, Bill =========================================================================== Ian Macdonald wrote: > I've only been programming in Ruby for about nine months, so things > like this still catch me out from time to time. On more than one > occasion, I've been surprised by my variable changing value, simply > because another pointer to the same variable was used to change its > value. > I'd suggest you put the above code snippet in your 'Things That > Newcomers to Ruby Should Know' document, if it's not already there.