From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2006-10-16T13:21:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Symbol < String in Ruby > 1.8 Hi, In message "Re: Symbol < String in Ruby > 1.8" on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:56:27 +0900, dblack@wobblini.net writes: |Follow-up question: | |Do you expect things like attr_accessor and define_method to take only |symbols in the future? Or would they still take both? I think there's no reason to prohibit strings for these methods, so they are very like to take both in the future too. matz.