Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson <at> gmail.com> writes: > > You're not actually passing the array around whenever you call > enter_dir, rather you're passing a reference to the object, so the > performance penalties should not be noticable at all. > > Farrel > > Hopefully that makes sense, but if it doesn't, imagine tying a long piece of string to a large rock and then giving the other end of the string to someone to hold