Scalars

ruby-talk
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In Ruby, do you use the world “scalar” as it’s used in Perl? (variables
that hold a single value).

Or is there a different term?

Daniel.

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Hi –

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On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Daniel Carrera wrote:

In Ruby, do you use the world “scalar” as it’s used in Perl? (variables
that hold a single value).

Or is there a different term?

There’s no equivalent term, because any variable can hold a reference
to any object.

David

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David Alan Black
home: dblack@candle.superlink.net
work: blackdav@shu.edu
Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav

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In Ruby, do you use the world “scalar” as it’s used in Perl? (variables
that hold a single value).

Or is there a different term?

There’s no equivalent term, because any variable can hold a reference
to any object.

That’s also true in Perl. What I mean is, “a variable that is not an
array or a hash”.

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Hi –

···

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Daniel Carrera wrote:

In Ruby, do you use the world “scalar” as it’s used in Perl? (variables
that hold a single value).

Or is there a different term?

There’s no equivalent term, because any variable can hold a reference
to any object.

That’s also true in Perl. What I mean is, “a variable that is not an
array or a hash”.

That distinction exists in Ruby only at the level of the object. The
variables themselves all behave the same way (they hold references to
objects).

David

–
David Alan Black
home: dblack@candle.superlink.net
work: blackdav@shu.edu
Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav