From: Malte Milatz <malte__@...>
Date: 2006-01-01T02:42:56+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the difference between :foo and "foo" ?

Christian Neukirchen:
> Malte Milatz:
>> My understanding of things so far was that :sym and 3 are immediate
>> values, and after writing
>>   a, b = :sym, 3
>> a is a reference to :sym and b is a reference to 3.
> In the current implementation, no.  It doesn't matter to the programmer,
> though.

I'm happy I'm not forced to dig into the details of Ruby's immediate
values...

Malte