From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2001-06-16T02:59:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16500] Re: Confusion about alias and alias_method

On Friday 15 June 2001 02:33, you wrote:
>  This is not because #inspect is defined for Symbol, that its result must
> fatally work with alias_method.

I don't quite understand this.

	:anysymbol.inspect	# --> ":anysymbol"
	id = :anysymbol
	id.inspect		# --> ":anysymbol"

"inspect" is defined for Symbol, and it returns the same value as inspect 
called on a variable that holds a symbol (which is what happens in the Axe 
book, page 252).

Why this doesn't work still isn't clear to me.

--- SER