From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-04-29T19:14:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Pointers in Ruby


"Jean-Hugues ROBERT" <jean_hugues_robert@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:6.0.1.1.0.20040429071924.01cd1ef0@pop.mail.yahoo.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am coining a Pointer class in Ruby. Kind of a C pointer, more
> like a C++ smart pointer actually. Should work for any lvalue.

Care to share what usage you envision for this?

Btw: this rather looks like a reference than a pointer.  As far as I
understand, you create an alias for some variable (possibly a local var)
as a handle to modify it from outside the original scope.  Is that
correct?

    robert