Hi --

On Sun, 1 May 2005, Eric Mahurin wrote:

>  I read a little more about become.  It looks like it might be
>  made standard in ruby at some point.  Will it have the above
>  functionality.  Or will it do something like what I think the
>  smalltalk "become" does - change all references to the
>  destination object to point to the source object.  I really
>  don't want the reference changes because a) it seems very
>  expensive (search the object space), and b) this would cause
>  the object id to change.

I thought that was the whole point of "become".  Certainly it doesn't
make sense for references to object x to persist in being reference to
object x if object x has "become" object y.  (The idea of having this
in Ruby doesn't appeal to me, but that's my understanding of its
premise, anyway.)


David

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