Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Or, maybe more clearly....

> a = 5; b = a; a++;

> This doesn't change the value in 'b'.

  I don't even understand why it should, if you are handling value-based
variables.

> You're not incrementing the value in 
> 'a'. You're replacing the value in 'a' with a new value.

  "a++" probably results in an assembler machine code which makes the CPU
increment the value of a memory location by one. Exactly how the bits go
through the transistors in order to achieve this feels irrelevant. It's
the end result that matters: You modified the value of the variable.

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                                                          - Warp

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