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On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale / gmail.com>wrote:

> As Matz himself has pointed out in this thread,
>
> >
> > There's no way to modify local variables by sending message in Ruby.
> >
> >                                                         matz.
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> Which is something I've said on this thread before (multiple times IIRC).
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> This has nothing to do with whether or not the object bound to a
> variable is immutable, it has to do with how ruby variable bindings
> can and cannot be changed, and that is the whole point.
>

You still seem to be missing what I'm proposing.

For Numerics, ++ would rebind.  For everything else, it would be dispatched
as a message.

Am I being unclear?

-- 
Tony Arcieri
Medioh/Nagravision

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