From: Ross Bamford Date: 2005-12-05T05:12:33+09:00 Subject: Re: Getting Over Symbols On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:17:36 -0000, James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Dec 4, 2005, at 1:07 PM, gwtmp01@mac.com wrote: > >> My question to the list is, why? What is it about Symbols that >> creates such confusion? I'm getting ready to prepare a two-hour >> "Intro to Ruby" seminar and I'd like to find an approach to Symbols >> that cuts through the confusion. > > I always introduce it as an immutable String. That seems to suck the > magic out of in. > It took your describing it so before I saw that symbols aren't nearly as complex as they sound. It's the connotations of the word 'symbol' I guess... -- Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk "\e[1;31mL"