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Code Samples for Ruby Under A Microscope - Learning Ruby Internals Through Experiment
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[PDF] Page 128 Rephrasing #7

Open NiranjanSarade opened 11 years ago

NiranjanSarade commented 11 years ago

I am not sure whether this is appropriate or not. But here is my thought about this sentence on page 128 -

Whenever the FIXNUM_FLAG is set, Ruby knows this VALUE is really a small integer, an instance of the Fixnum class, and not a pointer to a value structure.

Could it be considered to be rephrased to below sentence for more clarity ?

Whenever the FIXNUM_FLAG is set, Ruby knows this VALUE is really a small integer, an instance of the Fixnum class, and not a pointer to its corresponding C structure.

Thanks !