From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-07-04T01:22:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols & yaml (was Re: SOT (slightly offtopic): General OOP question)

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, daz wrote:

>
> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>
>> ... for a while i was a fan of using symbols as hash keys,
>> but now use only strings. this is mostly due to the wonderful
>> ease of using yaml files as configuration files ...
>
>
> Sorry, I just noticed this and it almost spoilt
> my enjoyment of an iced biscuit.
>
> Have you noticed that '_why'.capitalize has improved Symbol#to_yaml ?
>
> require 'yaml'
> puts :asym.to_yaml
>
> #-> ruby 1.9.0 (2004-06-25)
> #-> --- :asym
>
> ##      - was ...
>
> #-> ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-30)
> #-> --- !ruby/sym asym
>
>
> If there's another reason for preferring strings, I hope I
> won't be trying to drink a glass of milk when I read it.
>
> ;-)
>
> daz

i had NOT noticed that.  thanks for the heads up!

-a
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