From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-12-12T23:47:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple issue giving problems


"Brad" <coish@hfx.eastlink.ca> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:6X7Cb.117608$PD3.5834673@nnrp1.uunet.ca...
> > True, in the case you present I would not expect a and b to be
altered.
> > But what I was wondering was if there were some way to allow
> > manipulation of
>
> 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.

Actually you don't need that since you can always use a parallel
assignment:

a,b = b,a

foo[10], foo[7] = foo[7], foo[10]

bar["x"], baz["eee"] = baz["eee"], bar["x"]

> As I understand it now this is not possible, though being new to Ruby I
> thought it couldn't hurt to ask.

Seems like you come from a perl background where such aliasings exist...

    robert