From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-12-01T08:03:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Scalars

Hi --

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> In Ruby, do you use the world "scalar" as it's used in Perl? (variables
> that hold a single value).
>
> Or is there a different term?

There's no equivalent term, because any variable can hold a reference
to any object.


David

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