well, then why bother copyiing at all? ruby passes references everywhere. Those are not pointers, of course, but for small arrays AFAIR those arrays (pointers t

well, then why bother copyiing at all? ruby passes references everywhere. Those are not pointers, of course, but for small arrays AFAIR those arrays (pointers to actual data) are contained in the reference itself. And logically it simplifies things soo much.