From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-11-06T16:15:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Generation of Unique Symbols

On 11/6/05, Eric Hofreiter <erichof425@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

There is no need for eval:

irb(main):001:0> symbol = :AAAAAAAA
=> :AAAAAAAA
irb(main):002:0> symbol.to_s.next.intern
=> :AAAAAAAB

Ryan