Tony Arcieri wrote: > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Rick DeNatale > <rick.denatale / gmail.com>wrote: > >> 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. Yuuuuuuuck! Why do this ugly special-casing for something that's hardly ever needed anyway? > > Am I being unclear? No, just silly. :D Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org marnen / marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.