From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2005-09-09T03:03:49+09:00
Subject: Re: returning strings from methods/instance_methods

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
> Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:
> > 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?

I started with Ruby 1.4.3 and I remember that calling String#intern 
returned a Fixnum.

Ruby 1.6.0 introduced Symbols in a stable release.

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