From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-09-09T02:27:01+09:00
Subject: Re: returning strings from methods/instance_methods

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: returning strings from methods/instance_methods"
>     on Fri, 9 Sep 2005 00:23:50 +0900, TRANS <transfire@gmail.com> writes:
>
> |I was just wondering why with #methods and #instance_methods, it was
> |decided to return the names as strings and not symobols?
>
> Those methods predate Symbols.

When were Symbols introduced to Ruby?

> matz.
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