From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2005-12-29T22:40:21+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ?

On Thursday 29 December 2005 03:03 am, Surgeon wrote:
> Oh, so many replies to my poor question! What a wonderful community!

I think it's because A LOT of us were wondering the same thing. In general, 
RUBY conforms beautifully to Eric Raymond's "Rule of Least Surprise". IMHO 
symbols are an exception.

Tell you the truth, I still don't understand, but at least now I have some 
theorys thanks to the thread you started. Thank you for that.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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