From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-10-24T23:23:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know (10/16/02)

Mauricio Fern?ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How many do need several references to the same string from the C side?

> If the number is high enough (ie, > a couple of them) doing this would
> be pointless :-(

> Bah, just have to find another thing to work on :)

Hi batsman,

I think the point is not *how many* but just if *there exists* some C code
that may have more than one references to a Ruby object.

Also, are you trying to do this only for the String objects?  (i.e., "aStr
+=" means "aStr <<" if there is only one reference count to the
object referred to by aStr.)

Regards,

Bill