From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-11-07T17:28:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Bikeshed: No more Symbol < String?

Hi,

In message "Re: Bikeshed: No more Symbol < String?"
    on Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:34:15 +0900, Kornelius Kalnbach <murphy@rubychan.de> writes:

|It seems matz decided to remove String from Symbol's ancestors 5 days  
|ago:

Even though it is highly against DuckTyping, people tend to use case
on classes, and Symbol < String often cause serious problems.  I found
several of these even in the standard distribution libraries.  That
encouraged me to remove String from Symbol's superclass.

							matz.