From: Enric Lafont <enric@1smart.com>
Date: 2002-11-04T19:04:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Ruby

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

>Hello Enric,
>
>Monday, November 04, 2002, 12:50:35 AM, you wrote:
>
>EL> = is an assignement and == is a comparission, the primitives are
>EL> diferent but both can be methods (look at Smalltalk if you need some 
>EL> examples)
>
>how this can be done in current ruby object model?
>
>are you know that '=' just copies pointer to obect?
>
Yes it's my fault, there are not "=" (assign) primitive in Smalltalk, 
there are some bytecodes that do the work (assigning), but it's the 
compiler the one that generates those bytecodes.

Enric