From: Levin Alexander Date: 2005-12-05T09:39:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Getting Over Symbols On 12/4/05, James Edward Gray II wrote: > I always introduce it as an immutable String. That seems to suck the> magic out of in. Interesting. I always think of them as a Number with an arbitrary value. foo[:bar] = "baz" is somewhat related to: #define BAR = 1 foo[BAR] = "baz" Viele Gr����e,Levin