From: Charles Oliver Nutter <Charles.O.Nutter@...>
Date: 2006-10-19T13:14:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol < String in Ruby > 1.8

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> Does Symbol need or will it even work with the following String methods?
> 
> <<   =~   []   []=   capitalize   capitalize!   casecmp   center   chomp 
>   chomp!   chop   chop   chop!   chop!   chr   clear   concat   count 
>  crypt   delete   delete   delete!   delete!   downcase   downcase! 
> each   each_byte   each_char   each_line   empty?   end_regexp   eql? 
> gsub   gsub!   hash   hex   include?   index   initialize_copy   insert 
>   inspect   intern   is_binary_data?   is_complex_yaml?   jcount 
> jlength   jsize   kconv   length   ljust   lstrip   lstrip!   match 
> mbchar?   new   next   next!   oct   ord   quote   replace   reverse 
> reverse   reverse!   reverse!   rindex   rjust   rstrip   rstrip!   scan 
>   size   slice   slice!   split   squeeze   squeeze   squeeze! 
> squeeze!   strip   strip!   sub   sub!   succ   succ   succ!   succ! 
> sum   swapcase   swapcase!   to_f   to_i   to_s   to_str   to_sym 
> to_yaml   tr   tr   tr!   tr!   tr_s   tr_s   tr_s!   tr_s!   unpack 
> upcase   upcase!   upto   yaml_new

Even better, compare to the current complete list of methods for Symbol 
in 1.9 (pre Symbol < String):

===   all_symbols   dclone   id2name   inspect   to_i   to_proc   to_s 
  to_sym   to_yaml   yaml_new

So Symbol will have these and the methods above? Why?

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Charles Oliver Nutter, JRuby Core Developer
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