From: Dominique Brezinski Date: 2005-09-09T02:54:30+09:00 Subject: Re: returning strings from methods/instance_methods irb(main):001:0> s = "blahhoo" => "blahhoo" irb(main):002:0> s.intern => :blahhoo On 9/8/05, TRANS wrote: > In thinking about it some more I wonder too if it's not possible to > have symbols coerced into strings as needed. Wouldn't that solve such > difficulties?