Re: POLS and string-handling

2012-12-24 Thread Robert Klemme
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Paul Magnussen wrote: > Thanks for all the replies. I notice also that I can force changing of > the value (as opposed to the reference) by substituting a trivial > expression for the right-hand side of the assignment, e.g. > > # g) Expression > > myStringA = "Fr

Re: POLS and string-handling

2012-12-24 Thread Robert Klemme
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 7:40 AM, 7stud -- wrote: > x = "hello" > y = "hello" > > puts x.object_id > puts y.object_id > > --output:-- > 2151872720 > 2151872540 > > Quote marks are a String object constructor in ruby. Maybe a bit more illustrative: executing the _same_ string literal results in mul