From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2002-12-01T08:40:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Scalars

In article <slrnauihgo.mq.timsuth@europa.zone>, Tim Sutherland wrote:
>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.

I meant "there's nothing special about strings or numbers. (Apart from
Fixnum's being immediate values.)