From: Ashley Roeckelein <ashley.DONT@...>
Date: 2001-05-22T14:41:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15525] Re: Newbie GC question

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Use symbols, if you concern about performance and memory consumption.
> They are immediate values thus being far effective.
> 
> matz.

OK, thanks for the reply matz.  I will stick with symbols for now...  I 
like the symbol notation better than the string notation anyway, the : 
being kind of like the ' in Lisps.

-ash