From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-12-14T21:37:00+09:00
Subject: Re: inplace assignment

On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:49:07PM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
> OK, I thought that was what you meant.
> 
> String also has a replace. But there's no general Object#replace.
> 
> My impression is that this in impossible in general, and for
> immediate values such as Fixnums, "even more impossible."
> 
> The idea of doing this with a constant is scary to me. It's bad

Don't you like open classes? ;-)

> enough that a constant String or Array can be changed. And it's
> even scarier to think of doing that with something like a
> Fixnum.

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