From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-11-06T22:23:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Generation of Unique Symbols

On Nov 6, 2005, at 1:03 AM, Eric Hofreiter 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.

Others have answered this, but let me add a warning.  I'm not sure  
how many of these symbols you are generating, but be aware that  
symbols are not garbage collected.  Watch your memory consumption.

James Edward Gray II