From: Nikolai Weibull <now@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T23:41:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Bikeshed: No more Symbol < String?

On 11/8/06, Jonas Pfenniger <zimba.tm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/11/06, Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
> > On 11/8/06, Jonas Pfenniger <zimba.tm@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Too bad, I was rejoicing to remove the need of
> > > HashWithIndifferentAccess. Couldn't a Ruby2.0 conversion team be
> > > formed to ditch backward-compatibility problems ?
> >
> > For one data structure with questionable semantics?
>
> It's one of the most used data structure with the Array I think

Hash may well be, but HashWithIndifferentAccess is a "hack" created
for Ruby-on-Rails that unifies access through Strings and Symbols,
which is a questionable pratice and I don't think the relationship
between String and Symbol should be governed by it.

  nikolai