From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-12-12T10:01:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple issue giving problems

il Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:26:53 -0400, Brad <coish@hfx.eastlink.ca> ha
scritto::


>
>Sorry didn't mean to send that one. :)  Hit wrong key sequence.
>
>What I was trying to say was...
>
>I was wondering if there were some way to allow manipulations of
>function/methods parameters such that the calling processes variable
>values would be modified.  
>
>As I understand it now this is not possible, though being new to Ruby I 
>thought it couldn't hurt to ask.

I don't think this is possible. The only thing you can do is wrap vars
in a bigger datastruct (i.e. an array), then pass the object to your
swapper method.

Oh, and I think you can change variable bindings from within a Proc
object, if that helps :)