From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2002-12-01T08:06:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Scalars

> > 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.

That's also true in Perl.  What I mean is, "a variable that is not an
array or a hash".