From: Gregory Millam <walker@...>
Date: 2004-04-29T22:04:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Pointers in Ruby

Received: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:59:03 +0900
And lo, David wrote:

> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Can you give an example of something you would need the extra layer
> of reference for? 

I'd imagine Fixnums and other immutable objects. But writing a wrapper class is easy enough, without a pointer class. Perhaps the OP can see a reason for such a pointer where we can't.