From: Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T08:34:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol#inspect bug?

On 11/18/05, Dominik Bathon <dbatml@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> Symbol#inspect should return a valid symbol literal, right?
>
> But it doesn't for symbols starting with a digit:
>
> irb(main):001:0> p :"9"
> :9
> => nil
> irb(main):002:0> :9
> SyntaxError: compile error
> (irb):2: syntax error
>          from (irb):2
>
>
> Dominik

It also doesn't work for many of the operators:

p(:'=')
:=

p(:=)
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):14: syntax error
p(:=)


It seems like if the symbol string is not a valid identifier, it
should be quoted by Symbol#inspect.