From: Brent Roman <brent@...>
Date: 2007-10-13T01:49:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does def return nil?

Ryan,

Both the Ruby 1.6 and the 1.9 series allow one to convert
the empty string to a Symbol.  Only the 1.8 series complains
about this.


ruby16 -e  'p "".intern'
:

ruby18 -e  'p "".intern'
-e:1:in `intern': interning empty string (ArgumentError)

 ruby19 -e p "".intern'
:""

- brent