"Claus Spitzer" <DocBoobenstein / gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:a7c2a81904061215063143a796 / mail.gmail.com... > well yes... It's just part of the procedural-->OO shift that everyone > needs to go through at some point. In fact this has nothing to do with procedural vs. OO. The way how variables (locations) and values are related is completely orthogonal to the nature of the language (procedural or OO). Regards robert > > On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 06:48:37 +0900, Robert Klemme <bob.news / gmx.net> wrote: > > > > > > "Claus Spitzer" <DocBoobenstein / gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > > news:a7c2a81904061213093afcb11b / mail.gmail.com... > > > I concur. > > > It's probably easier if you think of a variable as just a pointer to > > > an object, not as the objects themselves. > > > > Maybe it's easier because it's more accurate? ;-) > > > > robert > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 04:48:36 +0900, Robert Klemme <bob.news / gmx.net> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > "tony summerfelt" <snowzone5 / hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > > > > news:p3hmc0p6h00cq59vcl6jk0f61r9ir3gl4e / 4ax.com... > > > > > > > > > > > > > is there a way to undefine a variable? > > > > > > > > like > > > > > > > > x = nil > > > > > > > > Note: defined? does not have the same importance as in Perl. > > > > > > > > robert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >