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Tommy Morgan

8/28/2008 10:28:00 PM

Gah, fat-fingered before I could send.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tommy Morgan <tommy.morgan@gmail.com>
Reply-To: tommy.morgan@gmail.com
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: unsubscribe
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:31:33 -0400

Hi John;

If you examine the headers for the email, you'll see that you need to
send "unsubscribe" to a different address:



-----Original Message-----
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Cc: John Pritchard-williams <monojohnny@googlemail.com>
Subject: unsubscribe
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:02:01 +0900

unsubscribe

Feel free to awake this list's Owner so that he/she can remove my name.

I've tried "unsubscribe" for the past 48 hours.

CW.
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: John Pritchard-williams <monojohnny@googlemail.com>
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> > ... and as Integers are immutable ++ cannot change the underlying object..
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> That makes sense : and I guess 'x++'=> x+1 would be just confusing..
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> I mean like this:
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> a+=1 (which of course IS valid)
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> a++ - could in theory mean "Take the value pointed at by a currently,
> increment it and re-point 'a' at that new object"...
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> but then people might abuse it and not realize (as I hadn't really) that
> Integers are immutable...and give the garbage collector a really hard
> time...
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> Cheers
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> John
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