From: Sam Kong <sam.s.kong@...>
Date: 2005-07-27T00:36:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to understand symbols

Thanks, Dave!

Dave Burt wrote:
> The colon (:) prefix is Ruby for a literal Symbol, just like surrounding
> something in quotes (" or ') gives a String, or slashes (/) gives a Regexp.

May I think that symbols exist in Ruby becuase Ruby's strings are not
immutable?
Python, Java, and C# don't have symbols as far as I know.
Is it because their strings are immutable?

Thanks.

Sam