From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T22:06:37+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ?

Steve Litt <slitt@earthlink.net> writes:

> By the way, your article is obviously needed, and you should probably refine 
> it as time goes on. The fact that we had so many responses that at least in 
> part contradicted each other indicates to me that symbols are perhaps the 
> most surprising element of Ruby, which is otherwise not a surprising language 
> at all.

That just means you didn't dig deep enough into Ruby (yet). ;-)

> SteveT
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