http://www.jvoorhis.com/ en-us 40 jvoorhis comments <p>And while I am becoming quite the language lawyer, I should mention that Ruby&#8217;s <code>alias</code> statement treats global variables quite differently from other kinds of variables.</p> <p>When aliasing global symbols, the global variable itself is aliased and not evaluated. The result is a true alias, not a copy, so you cannot modify the global and its alias independently.</p> <p>This feature most likely exists solely for <code>English.rb</code> in the standard library. This being the case, see that file for examples.</p> Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:10:00 NZST <a href="/articles/2007/07/06/aliasing-global-variables-in-ruby">Aliasing Global Variables in Ruby</a> <a href="/articles/2007/07/06/aliasing-global-variables-in-ruby">Aliasing Global Variables in Ruby</a>