From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2004-05-19T14:43:47+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8 differences?


On 2004/05/03, Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote:
>
> >http://dev.faeriemud.org/changes-1.8.0.html
>
> I tried Symbol#intern, strangely it is not defined for me...
> So I keep my "class Symbol; def intern() self end end"
> RUBY_VERSION == "1.8.1", RUBY_PLATFORM == "i386-mswin32"
> Typo ?
>
> Yours,
>
> Jean-Hugues
>

#to_sym seems to be preferred over #intern.

h = 'Hello'.to_sym

p h              # (from String)  #-> :Hello
p h.to_sym       # (from Symbol)  #-> :Hello
p h.to_i.to_sym  # (from Fixnum)  #-> :Hello


<doc\ChangeLog>

Sat Nov  2 00:38:55 2002  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>

 * object.c (sym_to_sym): rename from Symbol#intern

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Fri Mar 23 09:49:02 2001  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>

 * object.c (sym_intern): new method.

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daz