From: Yorick Peterse <yorickpeterse@...>
Date: 2013-02-06T23:18:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:51907] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #7792][Open] Make symbols and strings the same thing

Symbols and Strings both have different use cases and that's actually a
good thing. If you want to be able to use both Strings and Symbols as
your Hash keys you can use something like Hashie:
https://github.com/intridea/hashie

Yorick