From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2005-07-26T15:05:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to understand symbols

In article <XDjFe.44415$s54.40074@pd7tw2no>, martindemello@yahoo.com 
says...
> > So that would mean that Rails's use of symbols (e.g. attr_reader :foo) 
> > is just a convention, and Rails uses the symbol-name to go look up an 
> > Object with the same name, thus appearing to releate the Symbol to the 
> > Object?
> 
> It's a common ruby convention, but yes, attr_reader etc. are just
> methods that take Symbol arguments, and could have been written to take
> String args instead.

Thanks.  I had always assumed that a symbol :foo was somehow a reference 
to the var/method/whatever called foo.


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