From: Douglas Livingstone Date: 2005-03-17T10:09:55+09:00 Subject: Re: Symbol vs String On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:37:12 +0900, Sebesty�n G�bor wrote: > I like string keys Why? Personally I think :symbols are great, makes it much clearer when you are reading code that you are representing something else, rather than storing a piece of data. And you can use them without having to define them as constants before hand. Great :) Faster to type too. Douglas