On Feb 18, 2007, at 14:50 UTC, Andy Dent wrote:

> A C programmer understands pointers being copied as values.

Well, OK, but clearly that confuses RB programmers.  :)  They're not
passed by reference; they're references passed by value, and this is a
very important distinction.

> RB Objects, strings and arrays are "reference data types" as opposed 
> to "scalar values".

Right.  I see that you understand -- hopefully everyone else does now
too!

Best,
- Joe

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