From: Eric Hofreiter <erichof425@...>
Date: 2005-11-06T16:03:43+09:00
Subject: Generation of Unique Symbols

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So far this is the best way I have come up with to generate unique symbols:
 
symbol = :AAAAAAAA
 
def getNext
    symbol = eval(":" + symbol.id2name.next)
end
 
But this is obviously not very efficient.  Is there a better way to do this?  If not I may just go back to good old integers.

		
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