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Nathan Olberding wrote:
> I have a case where I'd like to delete an instance of a class I made 
> myself. How do I do that?
> 
> The problem I'm having is that while iterating through a loop, I'm 
> constantly trying to reassign the same variable name to a different 
> instance, but Ruby is just adding the new data to the old, so I'm 
> mounting piles and piles of unwanted data on an instance.

Some code would help. Saying:

a = 1
a = 2
a = 3

Will *always* reassign variable 'a' to something new. My guess is you aren't really reassigning your reference to a new value. But
it's hard to say without any code cause no one can tell what you are doing.

Zach
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