> As Marick says, variables and objects are different > kinds of things. The name of the thing is not the > thing itself. Variables do not contain objects, they > point to them. In the array example Chris posted, we > assign "a", a reference which "points" to the > collection containing "["a", "b","c"]", and then we > assign "b", which is a reference to "a", not the > collection. That can trip people up if they are used > to doing things like I posted above. > (I think I have that right, Bret or someone else > could explain it better.)
Actually B is not a reference to A, but rather a reference to the same collection that A points to. They are both equally valid names for the same thing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.openqa.org/thread.jspa?threadID=6791&messageID=19748#19748 _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
