From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-11-07T23:44:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Bikeshed: No more Symbol < String?

On Nov 7, 2006, at 2:28 AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> 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, just curious but what was your opinion on the idea of removing  
Symbol altogether?

I'm pretty sure it was Charles Nutter that made the suggestion to  
just have :whatever create a frozen String, which is basically what  
we had with the subclassing.

James Edward Gray II