From: TRANS <transfire@...>
Date: 2005-09-09T03:03:13+09:00
Subject: Re: returning strings from methods/instance_methods

On 9/8/05, Dominique Brezinski <dominique.brezinski@gmail.com> wrote:
> irb(main):001:0> s = "blahhoo"
> => "blahhoo"
> irb(main):002:0> s.intern
> => :blahhoo

  "blahhoo".to_sym

But I meant without manually doing it. Along the lines of:

  class Symbol
    def method_missing( sym, *args )
      self = self.to_s  #not possible in pure ruby but...
      self.send(sym,*args)
    end
  end

T.