From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2002-12-01T08:20:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Scalars

In article <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211301805400.593-100000@hardy.math.umd.edu>, 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.
>
>That's also true in Perl.  What I mean is, "a variable that is not an
>array or a hash".

Apart from syntax, there's nothing special about Array or Hash objects in
Ruby, so there's no special word for them.