From: Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas <rr.rosas@...>
Date: 2013-02-06T23:51:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:51920] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #7792] Make symbols and strings the same thing

Em 06-02-2013 12:36, Yorick Peterse escreveu:
> You don't need to hijack any code for it, you'd just use it as
> following:
>
>     require 'hashie'
>
>     parsed = JSON.parse('{"name": "Ruby"}')
>     hash   = Hashie::Mash.new(parsed)
>
>     hash.name    # => "Ruby"
>     hash['name'] # => "Ruby"
>     hash[:name]  # => "Ruby"
>
> We use Hashie in various production applications and it works quite well
> for us.
>

So you get a performance hit because you don't want to worry about 
symbols while symbols are meant to give you better performance, right? 
How ironic is that?