From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-09-09T17:04:15+09:00
Subject: Re: returning strings from methods/instance_methods

Hi,

In message "Re: returning strings from methods/instance_methods"
    on Fri, 9 Sep 2005 02:47:27 +0900, TRANS <transfire@gmail.com> writes:

|I see. So symbols came later on. What brought that on? 

Symbols are more lightweight objects than strings, since they are
immediates like fixnums.

							matz.