From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-09-22T13:52:34-07:00
Subject: Re: Operator overloading


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Johann Hibschman (jhibschman@yahoo.com) wrote:

> i.e., if m is a large matrix, then "m +=3D 1" and "m =3D m + 1" are rather
> different beasts, since the "obvioius" interpretation of the first involv=
es
> simply incrementing the matrix in place, while the second involves a
> copy.

Really?  I would say that the second means the same as the first,
because that's the way it works everywhere else in Ruby.

Maybe Matz has programmed my brain for the first to be the same as
the second.

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