From: Gyoung-Yoon Noh Date: 2006-11-07T17:13:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Bikeshed: No more Symbol < String? See [ruby-core: 09188] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/9188 2006/11/7, Kornelius Kalnbach : > Hi ruby-core! > > It seems matz decided to remove String from Symbol's ancestors 5 days > ago: > > http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ruby/string.c.diff? > r1=1.290;r2=1.291;sortby=date;f=h > > irb(main):001:0> :symbol.is_a? String > => false > > I wonder why? > There surely is an interesting and enlightening reason for the change :) > > [murphy] > > -- http://nohmad.sub-port.net