From: Gavri Fernandez <gavri.fernandez@...>
Date: 2005-08-26T22:33:00+09:00
Subject: Re: symbols vs. strings

On 8/26/05, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to clarify, are you saying that ...
> 
> 1) If I want my code that accepts a Hash parameter to allow keys to be
> either Symbols or Strings, I need to use an approach like you showed
> above.
> 
> 2) Many existing Ruby classes do this.

Rails makes use of
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/HashWithIndifferentAccess.html
I don't think it's very common.

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