From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2003-12-14T15:14:44+09:00
Subject: Re: inplace assignment

On Sunday 14 December 2003 05:51 am, Hal Fulton wrote:
> T. Onoma wrote:
> > is there anyway, anyway at all, ugly hacks accepted, of doing inplace
> > assignment in Ruby?
>
> Not sure what you mean, can you give an example from
> some other language? Or just explain?
>
> Hal

Sure,

  q = 1
  p q.__id__  # => 3
  q = 2
  p q.__id__  # => 5  (want this to still be 3)

In other words I want to change what q "contains" rather then alter its 
reference. With an array for example you can do that with #replace. In 
particular I'm interesed in doing this with constants.

-- 
T.